Hi, sajolida: > intrigeri: > > Hi, > > > > Facts and fictions: > > > > - Firefox 10: 2012-01-03 > > - Firefox 11: 2012-03-13 > > - Firefox 12: 2012-04-24 > > - about 1-2 weeks, after a given Firefox release, before iceweasel > > and the addons suite catch up > > - Tor 0.2.3 final: "nickm: I'd like to be able to promise 0.2.3.x by > > end-of-march, but I have no way to guarantee that" > > > > So it seems reasonable to me to aim at April 20th for the next major > > Tails release; Tor 0.2.3 may be ready in time to get in there, but it > > may well not be; who knows; Tails 0.11 would ship iceweasel 11. > > > > This means in a bit more than three months. We could use a bit more > > than two months for development, and one full months for bug fixing, > > testing and release process; that would be something like: > > > > 2012-03-20: big features freeze > > .... documentation writers and translators, heads up .... > > 2012-04-01: deep freeze and RC1 > > .... test test test .... > > .... any number of release candidates .... > > 2012-04-20: Tails 0.11 final > > Great. I like the idea of having a two-step freeze. I think it will > further improve this trend of documenting as we release. > Sounds fine to me.
> > This late? Yeah. We'll have to ship one or two quick point-releases > > until then anyway. So there's room for bug fixing. > > I think it's worth for a bugfix release soon, seeing: - last security updates; - the really annoying bug with the script eating CPU and filling memory while using Tails offline; - a bug making MAT hardly usable: "clean (strict)" not working from the gui (bug already reported upstream); - probably other recently fixed issued. > > My feeling for these last three months is that preparing releases ate > > a bit too much time; fast-paced releases are exciting and great and > > all, but I think we currently need more time to *focus* on and > > complete a few big, major pieces of work: > > > > - on the features side, I'm thinking of USB installer, persistence and > > tails-greeter > > - on the infrastructure side, I'm thinking of APT repository, new web > > forum, and Git split > > - I'm not aware of specific goals on the documentation and translation > > sides, but I'm convinced more high quality work will be done in > > these areas, as it's been constantly the case for a while. > > On the documentation sidem a nice goal would be great to finish cleaning > up all the fixmes inherited from the walkthrough. > Agrees it would be really nice, even if I'm not sure I'll have enough time to contribute to it. Cheers, Alan --
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