====== Schedule for and Status of the Xfce 4.12 Development Cycle ======


===== Schedule =====

**This schedule is preliminary and not to be considered final.**

Read the [[http://www.xfce.org/about/releasemodel|Xfce Release Model]] to understand why this cycle is the way it is.

^ Dates ^ Phase/Deadline ^ Everyone's Tasks ^ Release Team Tasks ^ Maintainer Tasks ^
| 2012-04-29 - 2012-05-13 | Planning Phase  | Elect the release team, discuss dependencies  |  | Make a realistic list of planned features |
| 2012-05-14 - 2012-05-27 | Extended Planning Phase |  |  | May request dependency changes |
| 2012-05-27 | Dependency Freeze |  | Update dependency info, inform community about the decisions made (dependencies, unguaranteed feature preview)  |  |
| 2012-05-27 - 2015-02-20 | Development Phase | Support Xfce | Supervise development, remind people of deadlines | Hacking |
| 2015-02-20 | String Freeze |  | Prepare release announcements | Make sure that strings in the latest development release or in master are good |
| 2015-02-28 or 1 day later | Xfce 4.12 (Final Release) | Celebrate | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.12, branch for stable release, merge ELS branches into master | Make sure to upload a new release of own components before this deadline |

===== Status =====

==== Release Team ====

| Release Manager   | Landry Breuil (gaston) |
| QA Official       | tbd |
| Release Assistant | Simon Steinbeiss (ochosi) |
| Release Assistant | tbd |
| Release Assistant | tbd |

People can still apply for the open positions.

==== Dependencies (Fixed After 2012-09-19) ====

  * pkgconfig-0.9.0 (it might be wise to use a current version, though, starting with >=0.27)
  * automake-1.11
  * autoconf-2.60
  * libtool-2.4
  * gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24 ((Last GTK+ 2 version for most-complete GSEAL support))
    * Same version for gdk-2.0.
  * glib-2.0 >= 2.30 ((Minimum GLib version for GTK+ 2.24 is 2.28, but 2.30 gives advantages for the file manager.))
    * Same version for gmodule-2.0, gobject-2.0, gthread-2.0 and gio-2.0
  * gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.21 ((Minimum GDK-Pixbuf version for GTK+ 2.24.))
  * dbus-glib-1 >= 0.84
    * dbus-1 >= 1.1
  * cairo >= 1.6 ((Minimum Cairo version for GTK+ 2.24.))
  * libwnck-1.0 >= 2.30
  * upower >= 0.9.0
  * consolekit / systemd

In case applications want to optionally support GTK+-3 the following versions will be used:
  * gtk+-3.0 >= 3.2
    * Same version for gdk-3.0
==== Roadmap / Planned Features ====

=== Features that Affect the Entire Xfce Core ===

  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:Gtk3|GTK+ 3 preparation and optional compile support]]

=== Modules ===

  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:exo]]
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:garcon]]
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:libxfce4ui]] (finished)
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:libxfce4util]] (finished)
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:thunar]] (finished)
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:thunar-volman]]
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:tumbler]]
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:xfce4-appfinder]] (finished)
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:xfce4-panel]] (finished)
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:xfce4-power-manager]]
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:xfce4-session]]
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:xfce4-settings]] (finished)
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:xfconf]]
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:xfdesktop]]
  * [[releng:4.12:roadmap:xfwm4]] (finished)

=== Critical bugs ===
  * None ;)