On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Simon Schampijer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sugar community, > > today at the Developers Meeting it was decided to enact a one week slip > of the 0.86 Sucrose release. > > = 0.86 Final release the 25th September = > This is due to the remaining bugs in the stable branch and some > regressions, for example introduced by the switch to Metacity. We still > think that switch is the right thing to do, so we want to move forward > with this. As well the new toolbar design was a lot of work, but we are > really convinced that it is worth it. We checked the deadlines of the > distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva etc) and this one week slip will > not introduce any missed boats. The new release date is September 25th.
+1 The development team has done a good job introducing several major changes into the platform--while creating the processes to communicate and coordinate those changes across a growing pool of contributors. . An additional week to stabilize makes good sense. david > = Hard Code Freeze = > At Monday the 21th of September we will enter Hard code freeze. No > source code changes can be made without approval from the release-team. > Translation and documentation can continue. The Hard code freeze will > end with the 24th, but other freezes remain in effect for the stable > branch. This freeze should help to avoid sudden last-minute accidents > which could risk the stability that should have been reached at this point. > > = Bug Fix releases terminated = > After our final release we will have two bugfix releases, one and two > weeks after the release date. We can add anther coordinated bugfix > release later, when there is feedback from the distributions shipping > Sugar. Of course individual module updates can happen as well. > > = 0.85.7 = > We added another development release for tomorrow, so people can test > the latest tarballs and report back. > > > The updated schedule can be found at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Roadmap#Schedule > > > In the name of the Sugar community, > Your release team > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
