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====== Schedule for and Status of the Xfce 4.16 Development Cycle ======

  * **[[#Schedule|Schedule]]**
  * **[[#libxfce4panel|libxfce4panel]]**
  * **[[#Roadmap / Planned Features|Roadmap / Planned Features]]**
  * **[[#Features that Affect the Entire Xfce Core|Features that Affect the Entire Xfce Core]]**
  * **[[#Modules|Modules]]**
  * **[[#Changes in Dependencies|Changes in Dependencies]]**
  * **[[#Other planned changes|Other planned changes]]**

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===== Schedule =====

Read the [[https://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 ^
| 2019-08-13 - 2019-09-30 | Planning Phase | Elect the release team, discuss dependencies |  |  |
| 2019-10-01 - 2019-10-15 | Extended Planning Phase |  |  | May request dependency changes |
| 2019-10-18 | Dependency Freeze |  | Update dependency info, inform community about the decisions made (dependencies, unguaranteed feature preview)  |  |
| 2019-10-20 - April 2020 | Development Phase | Support Xfce | Supervise development, remind people of deadlines |  |
| May | Release Phase | Wait patiently | Perform releases, remind people of deadlines | Perform releases of own components if desired |
| 2020-08-27 | [[releng/4.16/roadmap/xfce_4.16pre1|Xfce 4.16pre1]] (Soft String Freeze) |  | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.16pre1 | Make sure the latest development release is in good shape and uploaded. Try to avoid making string changes since this release will most likely skip pre3! |
| 2020-11-19 | [[releng/4.16/roadmap/xfce_4.16pre2|Xfce 4.16pre2]] (String + Code Freeze) |  | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.16pre2 | Make sure that strings in the latest development release or in master are good |
| <del>October \\ December</del> | <del>Xfce 4.16pre3 (Final Freeze)</del> |  | <del>This is an optional release (release team decides whether we need or skip it in favor of the final release)</del> |  |
| December | Xfce 4.16 (Final Release) | Celebrate | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.16, branch for stable release, merge ELS branches into master | Make sure to upload a new release of own components before this deadline |

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===== Roadmap / Planned Features =====

=== Features that Affect the Entire Xfce Core ===
  * [[releng:4.16:roadmap:General UI]]
  * Use CSD (client-side decorations) for XfceTitledDialog and potentially apps: [[releng:4.16:roadmap:general_ui:csd|Review of current Xfwm4 decorations vs. CSD]]
  * Drop support for Gtk2
  * Create a new icon set with application icons for Xfce that will be shipped as part of the components
  * Switch to [[releng:4.16:icons rDNS naming for icons]] and desktop files
  * Replace certain general icons with their symbolic counterparts, e.g. "window-close" with "window-close-symbolic" (otherwise they look bad in Dark Mode apps or with dark themes)
  * [[https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16717|Migrate from exo-csource to xdt-csource]]: projects using exo-csource needs to be updated (need to call the new binary)

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=== Modules ===

Please don't take the features listed on these pages as obligatory. Keep in mind that they may or may not make it into the 4.16 release, depending on the time the individual developers have.


^ Module ^ Assignee ^ Status ^ Progress ^
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:exo]]  | Sean, Andre | | 70% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:libxfce4ui]] | Simon | Done | 100% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:libxfce4util]] | - | Done |  |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:thunar]] | Andre, Alex | In Progress | 50% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfce4-appfinder]] | | | |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfce4-panel]] | Simon | In Progress | 85% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfce4-session]] | Simon | In Progress | 80% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfce4-settings]] | Simon, Sean | In Progress | 80% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfconf]] | Ali | | 90% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfdesktop]] | | | |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfwm4]] | Olivier | | 10% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfce4-power-manager]] | Simon | In Progress | 85% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:tumbler]] | | | |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:garcon]] | Simon | Done | 100% |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:thunar-volman]] | | | |
| [[releng:4.16:roadmap:xfce4-dev-tools]] | Skunnyk | | 99% |

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=== Dependencies ===

  * pkgconfig
  * automake
  * autoconf
  * libtool
  * gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22
    * Same version for gdk-3.0.
  * glib-2.0 >= 2.50
    * Same version for gmodule-2.0, gobject-2.0, gthread-2.0, gio-2.0 and gdbus
  * gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.30
  * cairo >= 1.12
  * vte3 >= 0.38
  * libwnck3
  * upower-0.99
  * consolekit / systemd

=== Changes in Dependencies ===

  * Drop optional Gtk2 dependency
  * New dependency on libgtop (system information in libxfce4ui/xfce4-about)
  * glib-2.0 minimum 2.42 --> 2.50

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=== Other planned changes ===

  * Migrate our Git setup to a self-hosted GitLab instance: **DONE**
  * Enable basic GitLab CI setup: **DONE**
  * Migrate Bugzilla to GitLab: **DONE**

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