[etoys-dev] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] Roadmap to 0.88 --- Proposal

[Bert Freudenberg]

See below the proposed schedule for the next Sugar release.

Since Etoys is part of Sugar, we will need to have some version ready for this.

- Bert -


Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
> Date: 20. November 2009 18:38:07 MEZ
> To: Sugar-dev <Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Roadmap to 0.88 --- Proposal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have written a proposal for the new 0.88 schedule [1]. Basically, I 
> followed the GNOME schedule for 2.30 [2]. Following in terms of dates, 
> and I have added certain new freezes we did not have before.
> 
> In detail:
> - tarballs due will be on Mondays, and the release on Wednesdays: I hope 
> this will allow us to see the tarballs packaged by the end of the week 
> by the distributions ---> getting more testing done over the weekend
> 
> - UI Freeze added: No UI changes may be made without approval from the 
> release-team and notification to the documentation list. Having such a 
> freeze helps documentation efforts, and to not introduce workflow 
> regressions and issues late in the cycle.
> 
> - The feature freeze and API freeze is earlier compared to previous 
> cycles. This should help to get a more stable release at the envisioned 
> release date. After this shortened release cycle, from one feature 
> freeze to the next one, there will be always 6 months. So the same 
> amount of time to allow for development of features.
> 
> - To allow for long term planning, I have drafted the 0.90 schedule, too 
> [3]. This should help to schedule bigger features.
> 
> - Testing: I hope to see much much more testing in this release cycle. 
> Two things should help here: a) I encourage the creation of a testing 
> team. b) The 0.88 release will be packaged early. For testing purposes 
> 0.88 will be packaged for F12. Other distributions are encouraged to do 
> similar.
> 
> - Feature Process: We will follow the process [4] defined in the 0.86 
> cycle. It will be communicated another time.
> 
> - Getting it into a release: As we follow the same schedule as GNOME is, 
> we should have no issues in getting our packages into the distributions 
> in time. See the F13 [5] for example.
> 
> 
> Comments welcome,
>    Simon
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule
> [2] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentynine
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap#Schedule
> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy
> [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule
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