On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Vincent Torri wrote:

>> To avoid getting into the same situation as the current one, I'd like
>> to have a plan for the next release.
>> 
>> I believe we should move to time-based releases such as kernel,
>> firefox and others do, making the life of distributions easier as
>> well.
>>
>>   Freeze: 22-February
>>   Alpha: 1-March
>>   Beta: 8-March
>>   Release: 15-March (guess, if no extra beta/alpha is required)
>> 
>> It would be also great to define the policy of new features. With the
>> recent release we got some last-minute features to a codebase that was
>> very stable (multisense and lua for Edje), this added some turbulence
>> to the process and part of them were disabled at the end.
>>    With that said, if you have big features please merge them
>> complete and at least somehow tested by more than you (ie: create a
>> branch, send patches to maillist, ...). Otherwise wait 4 weeks more
>> and you'll get it in! During this time you can easily keep the
>> aforementioned branch or patchset for broader test.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
> I agree. But raster should not be always the release manager. So the first 
> thing to do is writing a wiki page that list all the tasks to be done, in 
> order for the release manager to not forget anything.

and also having some scripts that makes most of the process the easiest 
possible

Vincent

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