We've been looking at the alpha5 schedule in the last few Chandler
engineering meetings. Now that we've had a chance to do the bottom up
scheduling, we've realized that we need to adjust the schedule through
Preview. We won't have time for a full alpha6 cycle if we are to give
ourselves a 6 week stabilization period before Preview. We decided to
move key features into alpha5, and cut alpha6. Alpha5 will not really be
a separate release in its own right -- alpha5 will have an extended
end-game, and the polished result will be the final 0.7 release, also
known as Preview.
Summary of schedule/release decisions:
- No alpha6. The alpha6 milestone target will be removed from Bugzilla.
- No further work on alpha4. Alpha4 has been stable; we don't think it
is worth the cost to the QA team to spin another release.
- Key features added to alpha5
- dump and reload
- installers
- conflict management in UI
- edit/update remains in alpha5
- Features cut from 0.7
- labeling/tagging
- user defined attributes
- Feature freeze for alpha5 is Feb 15
- 6 week debug/stabilization period puts Preview at end of March. We'll
add more structure to this period. We may need to make non-trivial
changes during this period for performance, cosmo interop, and/or
changes to help dogfooders. We won't be adding new features after this date.
- We're keeping "0.7 Release" as a separate milestone target in
Bugzilla. No features or tasks should be targeted for "0.7 Release",
only bugs or performance work. Philippe will take a pass at scrubbing
Bugzilla to move all feature work to alpha5 or Future.
Note that this means we won't have another separate dogfood release
before Preview. This is a bit of a risk -- we'll counter that by asking
for testing help from dogfooders once we're past the feature freeze date
(or even sooner).
Notes from the meetings:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/EngineeringMeetingNotes20061207
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/EngineeringMeetingNotes20061221
Cheers,
Katie
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