2.6 and 2.8 schedules
- From: Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>
- To: Desktop Devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>,GNOME I18N List <gnome-i18n gnome org>, gnome-doc-list gnome org
- Cc: release-team gnome org
- Subject: 2.6 and 2.8 schedules
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:07:48 +0000
Hey,
So, here's a proposed schedule for the next 6 months or so.
To make things a little easier to understand, here's a couple of
tables:
+ Number of weeks development between each release:
2.6.x Series | 2.7.x/2.8.0 Series
------------------+--------------------
2.6.1: 4 weeks | 2.7.1: 7 weeks
2.6.2: 8 weeks | 2.7.2: 4 weeks
2.6.3: 10 weeks | 2.7.3: 3 weeks
| 2.7.4: 3 weeks
| Beta 1: 2 weeks
| Beta 2: 2 weeks
| RC1: 2 weeks
| 2.8.0: 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.
| 2.7.x | 2.5.x | 2.3.x
-----------------------+----------+-------------------
API/ABI FREEZE | 14 (17) | 13 | 18
FEATURE/MODULE FREEZE | 17 | 18 | 18
UI FREEZE | 17 (19) | 18 (22) | 26 (22)
STRING FREEZE | 17 (21) | 18 (22) | 26
CODE FREEZE | 23 | 26 | 29
FINAL RELEASE | 25 | 28 | 31
The actual schedule is appended below. Some things to note:
+ There are three scheduled 2.6.x releases, with 2.6.3 happening a few
weeks before 2.8.0.
+ All the freezes are pushed out slightly towards the final release
date, hopefully leaving more time for feature development without
compromising stability.
+ The release cycle is actually less than the previous ones, but is
actually a "six month cycle" rather than a "round about a six month
cycle" :-)
+ The hard string freeze date appears a little late, but we're
proposing that from "slushy string freeze" on developers must report
each new string to gnome-i18n but it doesn't need explicit approval
and then from "hard string freeze" each string requires approval,
but the default answer is to be "no". Only the most neccessary
string changes would be allowed.
The idea here is to avoid the "string freeze fiasco" we had this
time where the string freeze constantly broken. The slushy freeze
should raise awareness that developers about the need to slow down
the rate of string changes, while at the same time giving
translators the information needed to keep up with changes.
Hopefully, things would have slowed down sufficiently by hard string
freeze that there would be very few more string changes and that the
remaining 4 weeks left before the final release would be enough for
translators.
+ The 7 week period at the start of the 2.7.x release cycle is to give
devlopers some breathing room to do some cool new stuff without
having to worry about releasing stuff. Usually we do a unstable
release after only a few weeks in order to remind people that things
are moving, but we're going to experiment with doing it this way
this time around.
Feedback/ideas are very welcome. Unless there are any major
disagreements we'll go ahead and post the schedule on the website in a
few days time.
Cheers,
Mark.
March 2005
Wk Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21(22)23(24)25 26 27 RELEASE: GNOME 2.6.0 Desktop & Developer Platform
1 28 29 30 31
April 2004
Wk Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3
2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
3 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
4 18(19)20(21)22 23 24 RELEASE: GNOME 2.6.1 Desktop & Developer Platform
5 25 26 27 28 29 30
May 2004
Wk Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
6 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
7 9(10)11(12)13 14 15 RELEASE: GNOME 2.7.1 Development Series Snapshot
8 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
9 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
10 30 31
June 2004
Wk Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5
11 6 (7) 8 (9)10 11 12 RELEASE: GNOME 2.7.2 Development Series Snapshot
12 13(14)15(16)17 18 19 RELEASE: GNOME 2.6.2 Desktop & Developer Platform
13 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
14 27(28)29(30) RELEASE: GNOME 2.7.3 Development Series Snapshot [SLUSHY API and ABI FREEZE]
July 2004
Wk Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3
15 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
16 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
17 18(19)20(21)22 23 24 RELEASE: GNOME 2.7.4 Development Series Snapshot [HARD FEATURE, MODULE, API and ABI FREEZE]
18 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 [SLUSHY UI AND STRING FREEZE]
August 2004
Wk Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
19 1 (2) 3 (4) 5 6 7 RELEASE: GNOME 2.8.0 Beta 1 (2.7.90) [HARD UI FREEZE]
20 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
21 15(16)17(18)19 20 21 RELEASE: GNOME 2.8.0 Beta 2 (2.7.91) [HARD STRING FREEZE]
22 22(23)24(25)26 27 28 RELEASE: GNOME 2.6.3 Desktop & Developer Platform
23 29(30)31 TARBALLS DUE: 2.8.0 Release Candidate 1 (2.7.92)
September 2004
Wk Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
(1) 2 3 4 RELEASE: GNOME 2.8.0 Release Candidate 1 (2.7.92) [HARD CODE FREEZE]
24 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
25 12(13)14(15)16 17 18 RELEASE: GNOME 2.8.0 Desktop & Developer Platform
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30
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