Hello.

On 27/10/14 14:55, Daniel Zaoui wrote:
> On 10/27/14 15:42, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
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> Hi Stefan,
>
> Strong in you is the copy-paste force :-)
> Seems a good decision to delay by a week.
>
Ah, I see what you mean. I fixed the version on the wiki page now.

The link should hav ebeen included in the first mail already.
https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/efl_and_elementary_1_13/

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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