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Schedule for and Status of the Xfce 4.8 Development Cycle
Schedule
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 |
2009-08-16 - 2009-08-30 | Planning Phase | Elect the release team, discuss dependencies | Make a realistic list of planned features | |
2009-08-31 - 2010-01-31 | Development Phase | Support Xfce | Supervise development, remind people of deadlines | Hacking |
2009-08-31 - 2009-09-13 | Extended Planning Phase | May request dependency changes | ||
2009-09-13 | Dependency Freeze | Update dependency info, inform community about the decisions made (dependencies, unguaranteed feature preview) | ||
2010-02-01 - 2010-04-12 | Release Phase | Wait patiently | Perform releases, remind people of deadlines | Perform releases of own components if desired |
2010-02-01 | Xfce X.Ypre1 (Feature Freeze) | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce X.Ypre1 | Make sure the latest development release is in good shape and uploaded | |
2010-03-01 | Xfce X.Ypre2 (String Freeze) | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce X.Ypre2 | Make sure that strings in the latest development release or in master are good | |
2010-03-29 | Xfce X.Ypre3 (Code Freeze) | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce X.Ypre3, create ELS branches | Make sure the latest development release is in good shape, or that code is solid/finished in master | |
2010-04-12 | Xfce X.Y (Final Release) | Celebrate | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce X.Y, 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 | Jannis Pohlmann |
QA Official | Stephan Arts |
Release Assistant | Ali Abdallah |
Release Assistant | |
release Assistant |
Dependencies (Fixed After 2009-09-13)
- cairo >= 1.0.0
- dbus-1 >= 1.0.0
- dbus-glib-1 >= 0.73
- garcon-1 >= LEFT OPEN - NO RELEASE YET
- gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.14.0
- gio-2.0 >= 2.18.0
- glib-2.0 >= 2.18.0
- gmodule-2.0 >= 2.18.0
- gobject-2.0 >= 2.18.0
- gthread-2.0 >= 2.18.0
- gtk+-2.0 >= 2.14.0
- libpng12 >= 1.2.0
- libwnck-1.0 >= 2.12
- x11 >= 1.1.0