Hello. We are in the final stages for 1.12 so it is about time to think about the schedule for 1.13.
This proposal will follow the simplification I proposed during the EFL dev day and here on the mailing list. It changes to a simplified 8 weeks development followed by 4 weeks stabilization model. I heard the comments about going down to 3 weeks stabilization but looking through the feedback it seems we should at least give 8+4 a try for the first time. We can always adjust for the next cycle. 1.12 is planned for November 10th which would normally mean we start the development window at that day (minus the days we might need to delay). When doing the schedule like this I discovered two problems date wise which I would like to avoid. Number one is that the merge window would close at the 5th of January next year. Given that many western developers are on vacation end of the year and beginning of the new one that would mean that they would in worst case only have 6 weeks time and the stabilization phase would directly begin at the end of their vacation. The second date conflict would be the release date of 1.13. It would be the 2nd of February a day where I will most likely will travel back from FOSDEM. Both of these date conflicts made me think that we should just start our cycle a week late for 1.13 (at the 17th of November). That gives people a week after new year vacation to ring in their last changes and myself a easier last week for preparing and releasing 1.13. Full schedule would look like this: 2014-11-17 EFL release 1.11 / Merge window for 1.13 opens 2015-01-08 Notice about soon ending merge window 2015-01-12 Merge window is over. * Only bug fixes from this point * Alpha release tarball * Three weeks stabilization phase starts 2015-01-19 Beta1 release tarball * Only critical fixes from this point 2015-01-26 Beta2 release tarball 2015-02-02 Beta3 release tarball 2015-02-09 EFL 1.13 is Out Comments, opinions? If nothing speaks against this I would consider it agreed upon next week. regards Stefan Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
