Schedule for and Status of the Xfce 4.12 Development Cycle

Schedule

This schedule is preliminary and not to be considered final.

Read the 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 - today	Development Phase	Support Xfce	Supervise development, remind people of deadlines	Hacking
~~2013-01-27 - 2013-03-10~~	Release Phase	Wait patiently	Perform releases, remind people of deadlines	Perform releases of own components if desired
~~2013-01-27~~	Xfce 4.12pre1 (Feature Freeze + Soft String Freeze)		Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.12pre1	Make sure the latest development release is in good shape and uploaded.
~~2013-02-10~~	Xfce 4.12pre2 (String Freeze)		Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.12pre2	Make sure that strings in the latest development release or in master are good
~~2013-02-24~~	Xfce 4.12pre3 (Code Freeze)		Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.12pre3	Make sure the latest development release is in good shape, or that code is solid/finished in master
~~2013-03-10 or 1 week 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

We're still in the development stage and will start releasing when we think 4.12 is ready.

People can still apply for those positions.

gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24 ¹⁾
- Same version for gdk-2.0.
glib-2.0 >= 2.30 ²⁾
- Same version for gmodule-2.0, gobject-2.0, gthread-2.0 and gio-2.0
gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.21 ³⁾
dbus-glib-1 >= 0.84
- dbus-1 >= 1.1
cairo >= 1.6 ⁴⁾
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:

¹⁾ Last GTK+ 2 version for most-complete GSEAL support

²⁾ Minimum GLib version for GTK+ 2.24 is 2.28, but 2.30 gives advantages for the file manager.

³⁾ Minimum GDK-Pixbuf version for GTK+ 2.24.

⁴⁾ Minimum Cairo version for GTK+ 2.24.