Re: Preliminary Gnome 2.14 Schedule

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 9/14/05, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
>   - Having feature freeze two weeks after Christmas last year caused
> some complaints.  To
>     avoid something like that, we need to extend the schedule by a
> week, shorten it by at
>     least 3 weeks, or do something even more drastic.

FWIW, it is after Christmas because in the past university students
complained that having feature freeze during exams and right before a
period where they would have lots of free time sucked for them. So if
we're going to change it, push it out another week.

Luis

> The specific solutions I'm proposing are:
> 
>   - Tarballs are due by 23:59 UTC on the Monday specified
>   - Freezes begin by 23:59 UTC on the Monday specified
>   - Extend the schedule by one week to push feature freeze back
>   - Put 2.12.1, 2.12.2, and 2.12.3 on the schedule
> 
> Some statistics about the proposed calendar, comparisons to previous
> release cycles, and the proposed calendar are as follows:
> 
>   + Number of weeks development between each release:
> 
>       2.12.x Series     |  2.13.x/2.14.0 Series
>      ------------------+--------------------
>       2.12.1: 4  weeks  |  2.13.1:   7 weeks
>       2.12.2: 8  weeks  |  2.13.2:   3 weeks
>       2.12.3: 10 weeks  |  2.13.3:   4 weeks
>                         |  2.13.4:   3 weeks
>                         |  2.13.5:   2 weeks
>                         |  Beta 1:   2 weeks
>                         |  Beta 2:   2 weeks
>                         |  RC1:      2 weeks
>                         |  2.10.0:   2 weeks
> 
>   + Number of weeks between each freeze compared with other development
>     cycles - the numbers in parenthesis are the hard freeze dates where
>     there are slushy freezes.
> 
>                     | 2.13.x | 2.11.x | 2.9.x  | 2.7.x  | 2.5.x  | 2.3.x
> --------------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------
> API/ABI FREEZE      | 14(19) | 18     | 14(17) | 14(17) | 13     | 18
> FEATURE/MOD. FREEZE | 19     | 18     | 17     | 17     | 18     | 18
> UI FREEZE           | 17(21) | 16(20) | 17(19) | 17(19) | 18(22) | 26(22)
> STRING FREEZE       | 17(23) | 16(22) | 17(21) | 17(21) | 18(22) | 26
> CODE FREEZE         | 26     | 25     | 23     | 23     | 26     | 29
> FINAL RELEASE       | 27     | 26     | 25     | 25     | 28     | 31
> 
>    + Proposed calendar:
> 
>  Wk      September 2005
>       Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                    1  2  3
>        4 (5) 6 (7) 8  9 10   RELEASE: GNOME 2.12.0
>   1   11 12 13 14 15 16 17
>   2   18 19 20 21 22 23 24
>   3   25 26 27 28 29 30
> 
>           October 2005
>       Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                          1
>   4    2 (3) 4 (5) 6  7  8   RELEASE: GNOME 2.12.1
>   5    9 10 11 12 13 14 15   [GNOME SUMMIT, 8-10]
>   6   16 17 18 19 20 21 22
>   7   23(24)25(26)27 28 29   RELEASE: GNOME 2.13.1 [new mod. proposal start]
>   8   30 31
> 
>           November 2005
>       Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>              1  2  3  4  5
>   9    6  7  8  9 10 11 12
>  10   13(14)15(16)17 18 19   RELEASE: GNOME 2.13.2
>  11   20 21 22 23 24 25 26
>  12   27(28)29(30)           RELEASE: GNOME 2.12.2
> 
>           December 2005
>       Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                    1  2  3
>  13    4  5  6  7  8  9 10
>  14   11(12)13(14)15 16 17   RELEASE: GNOME 2.13.3
>  15   18 19 20 21 22 23 24
>  16   25 26 27 28 29 30 31
> 
>           January 2006
>       Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>  17    1 (2) 3 (4) 5  6  7   RELEASE: GNOME 2.13.4 [String, UI change ann.]
>  18    8  9 10 11 12 13 14
>  19   15(16)17(18)19 20 21   RELEASE: GNOME 2.13.5 [API/feat./mod. freeze]
>  20   22 23 24 25 26 27 28
>  21   29(30)31               RELEASE: GNOME 2.14.0 Beta 1 [UI Freeze]
> 
>           February 2006
>       Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                (1) 2  3  4
>  22    5 (6) 7 (8) 9 10 11   RELEASE: GNOME 2.12.3
>  23   12(13)14(15)16 17 18   RELEASE: GNOME 2.14.0 Beta 2 [String freeze]
>  24   19 20 21 22 23 24 25
>  25   26(27)28
> 
>            March 2006
>       Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                (1) 2  3  4   RELEASE: GNOME 2.14.0 RC 1
>  26    5  6  7  8  9 10 11                              [Hard code freeze]
>  27   12(13)14(15)16 17 18   RELEASE: GNOME 2.14.0! [End hard code freeze]
>  28   19 20 21 22 23 24 25
>  29   26 27 28 29 30 31
> 
>            April 2006
>       Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                          1
>  30    2  3  4  5  6  7  8
>  31    9(10)11(12)13 14 15   RELEASE: GNOME 2.14.1
>       16 17 18 19 20 21 22
>       23 24 25 26 27 28 29
>       30
> 
> 
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