Fedora 8 Schedule

[dragoran]

On 6/1/07, David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net> wrote:
>
> fre, 01 06 2007 kl. 14:13 +0000, skrev Kevin Kofler:
> > Matthias Clasen <mclasen <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > > Some more notes about this draft: it puts feature freeze in bold
> letters
> > > at August 20, which is only a few days after gnome 2.20 beta1, and is
> >
> > It's good to know that some folks from the GNOME camp are also not happy
> with
> > that schedule (see also David Nielsen's message about the test3 freeze
> date).
> > One one hand, it makes me feel better because this means the schedule
> isn't
> > favoring GNOME over KDE, on the other hand it makes the schedule look
> even
> > worse, because this means it's misaligned with both the GNOME and KDE
> > schedules, at least one of which is central to every desktop user's
> experience
> > of Fedora.
>
> To be honest normally I wouldn't have a problem favoring GNOME over KDE,
> it has always been the default desktop but in this case I think it would
> be entirely foolish to forget just how major a release KDE 4.0 is. We
> have users waiting for it like crack addicts and it would look better if
> we were able to ship with the final release.
>
> Having the final version looks better to users not to mention it will do
> wonders for PR to both have KDE4 as one of the first stable distro
> releases and to show that we really do care about KDE in defiance of
> popular belief.
>
> I hear KDE 4.1 is aimed at being a 6 month release, this would then mean
> we align nicely for a F9 with KDE4 and GNOME 2.22. That would accomplice
> the goal of adjusting the schedule which was aimed for rather nicely..
> provided neither projects slips their release date.
>
> For KDE4 to hit on the final devel freeze we are merely talking putting
> back the schedule by about a week which if we push Test3 devel freeze to
> the the 25th of September that would allow us to ship Test3 with KDE
> 4.0-rc1 and GNOME 2.20 - I'm hoping that will provide helpful for
> getting testers to start using the release and we can accommodate both
> major releases in the final release.
>
> Cut dates would then be:
> September 19th - GNOME 2.20
> September 25th - KDE 4.0-rc1
> September 25th - Test3 devel freeze
> October 1st - Test3 release
> October 23th - KDE 4.0 final
> October 23th - Final devel freeze.
> November 7th - Final release
>
> - Is this insanity?
> - If I'm to understand Rex KDE packagers get the tarballs in time to
> make this?
> - can we live with doing freezes on a Tuesday instead of a Monday?
>
> And we'd be roughly on schedule with GNOME and KDE for F9 following that
> considering a standard 6 month cycle.


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