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Hiho everybody!
I wanted to raise this topic to get some feedback about how we should handle 
the eventual release of 1.4. Basically this
mail is about how much time you still need to get features in that you want to 
see in 1.4.0.

I would like to start a feature freeze around christmas. A feature freeze means 
that no more new features may be added
to trunk until we branch 1.4 off. At the same time I would also like to start a 
light string freeze and get out the
first beta release (not rc). Light string freeze means: basically all strings 
are frozen. Only spelling and grammar
mistakes are to be fixed, no more new content.
About one month later a "hard string freeze" should start that is hold until 
1.4 gets released. "Hard string freeze"
means that absolutely no strings get changed. I want to start releasing RC 
versions by the middle of febuary, shortly
after the hard string freeze is active.
I would like to finally release 1.4 in the middle of march, about 10 weeks 
after the start of the feature freeze. Those
10 weeks should be used for killing as many bugs in Wesnoth as possible.
I want to stick to the "a release every three to four weeks"-policy for the 
whole time.

Any objections against this? Anyone of you definatly needing more time for a 
"must have in 1.4"-feature? Of course there
are no fixed dates so far and the "around christmas" ain't fixed either. But it 
is meant as a general goal to tackle.

Things that definatly should be done until the feature freeze starts:
Sort out if we want to ship all campaigns available in trunk within the 1.4 
release. Be should remove all campaigns we
don't want to have in 1.4 before entering the feature freeze. The feature 
freeze does also mean that no new
campaigns/maps/whatever get added. That time is meant to tackle bugs and 
improve balancing. The "API" itself should be
rather stable that time so that no major WML changes take place either.

Feel free to comment in here and on IRC.

Cheers,
Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic
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