Uh, I see that I left out some links, below: On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > 17.04 in released, and technically it is great! Perhaps the best we > have ever done. Well done, team! Great thanks to Rik, who carried much > of the load as a brand-new Kubuntu Developer. > > On the other hand, I think we didn't promote it very well. I take > responsibility for part of that, and want to prepare better for the AA > release. Walter (wxl) was our actiing Release Manager this round, and > deserves a round of applause! He'll be stepping back however, and I'd > like to see a small team take over that job, and promotion as well, > since so much of the RM job is promotion and communication. > > I would like to see a password-protected document with all of our > social media account names and passwords, and all members of the team > have access. We were very patchy getting the word out this cycle. > Perhaps we can have a checklist somewhere showing who is doing what, > so that all the bases are covered each time. Walter and I both made > guides to doing RM; both worth looking at if you are interested. > [1,2]. > > I spent the evening putting together a calendar of planned events - > the cycle dates are just calculated, not yet published. The KDE > Applications, Frameworks and Plasma dates are from the published > release schedules. I've added in some other events that we should > promote via social media. > > Who knew the calendar could be so full, already? > > Valorie > > Probable 17.10 cycle dates > ===================== > > note on Yakkety calendar: October releases follow a 25-week schedule, > while April releases follow a 27-week schedule, to compensate for > year-end holidays > https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5 - schedule can change > https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Frameworks (tagging happens the > first Saturday of every month, and the public release is one week > later) > https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/17.04_Release_Schedule > > Document Freedom Day 2017: Last Wednesday of March, 29 March 2017 > <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/> > > * Framworks 5.33: Sat April 8th, 2017 > * Plasma 5.9.5 Bugfix: Tue 2017-04-25 > * KDE Applications 17.04: Thursday, April 20, 2017 > > Hardware Freedom Day 2017: 3rd Saturday of April, 15 April 2017 > <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/> > > Document Freedom Day 2017 - 2nd chance!: Last Wednesday of April, 26 April > 2017 > > week 1: April 27th - Toolchain Uploaded > > May 2017 > week 2: May 5th - UOS (Tuesday - Thursday) > > * KDE Applications 17.04.1: Thursday, May 11 2017 > * Frameworks 5.34: Sat May 13th, 2017 > * Plasma 5.8.7 LTS Bugfix: Tue 2017-05-23 > * Plasma 5.10.0 Release: Tue 2017-05-30 > > week 5: ~May 26th - FeatureDefinitionFreeze > > June 2017 > > * KDE Applications 17.04.2: Thursday, June 8, 2017 > * Frameworks 5.3.5: Sat June 10, 2017 > * Plasma 5.10.2 Bugfix: Tue 2017-06-13 > * Plasma 5.10.3 Bugfix: Tue 2017-06-27 > > week 10: June 29 - Alpha 1 (for opt-in flavors) > > July 2017 > > * Frameworks 5.3.6: Sat July 8, 2017 > * KDE Applications 17.04.3: Thursday, July 13, 2017 > * Plasma 5.10.4 Bugfix: Tue 2017-07-18 > > Akademy 2017, Almería, Spain: 22nd - 27th July > > week 14: July 27th - Alpha 2 (for opt-in flavors) > > August 2017 > > * Frameworks 5.3.7: Sat August 12, 2017 > > week 17: August 17th - FeatureFreeze,  DebianImportFreeze > > * Plasma 5.10.5 Bugfix: Tue 2017-08-22 > > week 18: August 24th - Beta 1 Freeze (Monday), Beta 1 (for opt-in flavors) > > September 2016 > week 20: ~September 8th - UserInterfaceFreeze > > * Frameworks 5.3.8: Sat September 9, 2017 > > week 21: ~September 15th - DocumentationStringFreeze > > Randa Meetings 2017: 2017-09-10 - 2017-09-16 > > Software Freedom Day 2017: 3rd Saturday of September, 16 September > 2017 <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/> > > * Plasma 5.11.0 Release: Tue 2017-09-26 > > week 22: September 21st - Final Beta Freeze,  Final Beta > week 23: ~September 29th - KernelFreeze,  NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline > > October 2016 > week 24: October 5th - FinalFreeze,  ReleaseCandidate,  > LanguagePackTranslationDeadline > > * Plasma 5.11.1 Bugfix: Tue 2017-10-03 > > Ada Lovelace Day: second Tuesday of October, 10 October 2017 > <http://findingada.com/about/> > > week 25: October 12th - FinalRelease  Ubuntu 17.10
(By the way, the calendar is under discussion in #ubuntu-release) 1. https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/ReleaseManagement 2. https://phabricator.kde.org/w/kubuntu/release-management/ -- http://about.me/valoriez -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
