GNOME 1.4 Schedule

[Dan Mueth <dan eazel com>]

Hi GNOME translators,

For anybody who does not know the current schedule for GNOME 1.4, the
current version is listed below.  We currently have March 18 set as the
hard freeze for translations.  The closest release before that date is on
March 8.  So, translators may want to schedule most of their work to be
done by March 8 so that the time between March 8 and March 18 can be
legitimately used for testing and debugging the translated documents and
applications.

If you want to follow the GNOME 1.4 release discussion more closely, join
the gnome-1.4-list mailing list:

http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-1.4-list

Dan

GNOME 1.4 Schedule
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1/29  Nautilus PR3 release
2/5   Library freeze date - create 1.4 branches, bug fix only mode
2/10  Freeze date for everything else - bug fix only mode, branch as
needed
2/10  Drop dead date for packages - any proposed new packages which are
      not ready will be dropped)
2/15  Package due date for GNOME 1.4 Beta 1 (maintainers must upload
                                             packages by this date)  
2/17  GNOME 1.4 Beta 1 (based on Nautilus PR3)
2/18 - 2/25  Beta 1 Test Cycle
2/23  Nautilus 1.0 freeze
2/26  Nautilus release candidate tarballs released (0.9 or 0.99 or
                                     something - done barring final Eazel
                                     and community QA)
2/26  GNOME 1.4 Beta 2 package due date
2/28  GNOME 1.4 Beta 2 (based on Nautilus release candidate)
2/28 - 3/7   Beta 2 Test Cycle
3/5   Nautilus 1.0 release
3/6   GNOME 1.4 beta 3 package due date
3/8   GNOME 1.4 Beta 3 (based on Nautilus 1.0)
3/8   Hard freeze except for docs and translations - code changes may
      only go in for critical bugs as reviewed by Release Team (or the
      GNOME Foundation board for hard cases).  
3/9 - 3/17   Beta 3 Test Cycle
3/16  GNOME 1.4 Release Candidate 1 package due date
3/18  GNOME 1.4 Release Candidate 1
3/18  Hard freeze for everything, including docs and translations -
      code changes may only go in for critical bugs as reviewed by
      Release Team and GNOME Foundation board.
3/19 - 3/26  Release Candidate 1 Test Cycle
3/25  GNOME 1.4 Final package due date - but no changes expected from RC1
3/27  GNOME 1.4 Final