Re: Updated G2D Schedule

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, John Fleck wrote:

> Folks -
> 
> Sorry for being tardy in forwarding this, but this many be useful to
> those smart enough not to be overscubscribed to a multiplicity of
> GNOME lists.
> 

Well, looking at what has/has not happened, I think its quite clear that
RC1 will not happen on 29th. Jeff appears to have made a mistake where the
time difference between beta4 and rc1 became 2 weeks anyways.

> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> -----
> 
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 07:30:18 +1000
> From: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
> To: GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>,
>    GNOME Hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
> Subject: Updated G2D Schedule
> Mail-Followup-To: GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>,
> 	GNOME Hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We have a newly updated schedule, which will be a relief to many - but
> certainly not an excuse to close your bugzilla windows and go cycling!
> 
> It's simply a result of having ~250 'high' or greater priority bugs [1],
> which is far too high for a serious release candidate. Thus, we've added
> another three week release period, and called the current release target
> "Beta 4":
> 
> 
>                          GNOME 2.0 Release Schedule
>                          --------------------------
> 
>    October 24 Package List FREEZE - package list for Gnome 2.0 finalized
>    October 31 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2. Platform Alpha 2
>    November 2 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Platform Alpha 2
>    November 2 API FREEZE - any further API changes must be individually
>      approved
>    November 23 Feature FREEZE - no feature additions for core packages
>      w/o approval of release team
> 
> Revised Schedule - 2001-12-10
> 
>    December 10 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 API Frozen Platform Beta
>    December 14 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 API Frozen Platform Beta
>    January 14 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Alpha
>    January 16 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Alpha
> 
> Revised Schedule - 2002-01-25
> 
>    January 28 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Alpha 2
>    January 30 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Alpha 2
>    February 11 UI FREEZE - no more UI changes w/o approval of release
>      team (excludes 1.4 feature porting)
>    February 11 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Beta 1
>    February 13 Porting FREEZE - porting complete as per GNOME 2.0 Porting
>      Guide
>    February 13 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Beta 1
>    February 18 String FREEZE - no more localizable string changes w/o
>      approval of release team
> 
> Revised Schedule - 2002-03-12
> 
>    March 4 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Beta 2
>    March 6 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Beta 2
>    March 25 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Beta 3
>    March 27 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Beta 3
> 
> Revised Schedule - 2002-04-13
> 
>    April 15 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Beta 4
> 
>    .-------------.
>   / YOU ARE HERE /  <-  RELEASE IMMINENT! High pressure weekend hackery!
>   `-------------'
> 
>    April 22 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Beta 4
>    April 29 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Release Candidate 1
>    May 1 DEEP FREEZE - release team approved fixes only from now to final
>    May 1 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Release Candidate 1
>    May 20 PACKAGES DUE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Final
>    May 22 RELEASE - Gnome 2.0 Desktop Final
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> [1] Statistics care of our favourite bugmeister (the politically correct
> term), Luis Villa.
> 
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>          the tough choices to make it happen." - Maciej Stachowiak          
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