Minor typo noted. -Paul On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 12:09:30PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Hi, all! > > Last year, I announced a tenative schedule for 0.2.3.x. We didn't > stick to it, and things have gone a little pear-shaped with getting > 0.2.3.x stabilized, but I think with a few tweaks we can use something > similar to get a good schedule out for 0.2.4.x. > > My goals remain about what they were before: get release out faster by > getting better at saying "no" to features after a release window. My > target is March or April 2013. > > To that end: > > October 10, 2012: Big feature proposal checkpoint. Any large > complicated feature which requires a design proposal must have its > first design proposal draft by this date. > > November 10, 2012: Big feature checkpoint. If I don't know about a > large feature by this date, it might have to wait. > November 10, 2012: Big feature proposal freeze. Any small feature
s/small/big/ > which requires a design proposal must have its design proposal > finished by this date. > > December 10, 2012: Big feature merge freeze. No big features will be > merged after this date. > December 10, 2012: Small feature proposal freeze. Any small feature > which requires a design proposal must have its design proposal > finished by this date. > > January 10, 2013: Feature merge freeze. No features after this date. I mean > it. > > Feb 20, 2013: Buggy feature backout date. Any feature which seems > intractably buggy by this date may be disabled, deprecated, or removed > until the next release. > > On the meaning of "feature": I'm probably going to argue that some > things that you think are bugfixes are features. I'm probably going > to argue that your security bugfix is actually a security feature. > I'm probably even going to argue that most non-regression bugfixes are > features. Let's try to get a release out *early* in 2013 this time, > come heck or high water. > > (This is all subject to change, but let's not push it.) > > [0] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2011-July/002851.html > > happy hacking, > -- > Nick > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
