Schedule for and Status of the Xfce 4.14 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 |
2015-03-01 - sometime in 2015 | Planning Phase | Elect the release team, discuss dependencies | | Discuss and plan porting |
sometime in 2015 | Extended Planning Phase | | | May request dependency changes |
sometime in 2016 | Dependency Freeze | | Update dependency info, inform community about the decisions made (dependencies, unguaranteed feature preview) | |
until sometime in 2018 | Development Phase | Support Xfce | Supervise development, remind people of deadlines | Porting to Gtk+ 3 and gdbus (no new features). |
currently ongoing | Release Phase | Wait patiently | Perform releases, remind people of deadlines | Perform releases of own components if desired |
2019-05-19 | Xfce 4.14pre1 (Soft String Freeze) | | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.14pre1 | 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! |
2019-06-30 | Xfce 4.14pre2 (String + Code Freeze) | | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.14pre2 | Make sure that strings in the latest development release or in master are good |
2019-07-28 | Xfce 4.14pre3 (Final Freeze) | | This is an optional release (release team decides whether we need or skip it in favor of the final release) | |
2019-08-11 | Xfce 4.14 (Final Release) | Celebrate | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.14, 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
Role | Assignee |
Release Manager | Simon |
QA Official | Skunnyk |
Release Assistant | Andre |
Dependencies
pkgconfig
automake
autoconf
libtool
gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22
glib-2.0 >= 2.42
gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.30
cairo >= 1.12
vte3 >= 0.38
libwnck3
upower-0.99
consolekit / systemd
Roadmap / Planned Features
Known Regressions
Modules
Applications
App | Assignee | Status | Progress |
xfce4-mixer | Ali | Stalled | 50% |
ristretto | Igor | Complete | 100% (0.10.0) |
gigolo | Landry/Sean | Complete | 100% (0.4.90) |
mousepad | codebrainz | Complete | 100% |
parole | Sean, Simon | Complete | 100% |
xfburn | Katana_Steel | Complete | 100% (0.6.0) |
xfce4-dict | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (0.8.0) |
xfce4-notifyd | Ali, Simon | Complete | 100% (0.3.0) |
xfce4-screenshooter | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (1.9.0) |
xfce4-taskmanager | Peter, Landry, Simon | Complete | 100% |
xfce4-terminal | Igor | Complete | 100% |
xfce4-volumed-pulse | Simon | Complete | 100% |
xfdashboard | | Complete | 100% |
xfmpc | Johannes Marbach | Complete | 100% (0.3.0) |
orage | | Archived | 0%, Never |
squeeze | | Archived | 0%, Never |
Thunar Plugins
Plugin | Assignee | Status | Progress |
thunar-archive-plugin | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (0.4.0) |
thunar-media-tags-plugin | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (0.3.0) |
thunar-shares-plugin | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (0.3.0) |
thunar-vcs-plugin | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (0.2.0) |
Panel Plugins
Module | Assignee | Status | Progress |
xfce4-notes-plugin | Skunnyk | In Review | 90% |
xfce4-battery-plugin | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (1.1.0) |
xfce4-calculator-plugin | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (0.7.0) |
xfce4-clipman-plugin | Simon | Complete | 100% (1.4.0) |
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (1.2.0) |
xfce4-cpugraph-plugin | Olivier Duclos / Andre | Complete | 100% (1.1.0) |
xfce4-datetime-plugin | Landry | Complete | 100% (0.7.0) |
xfce4-diskperf-plugin | Landry | Complete | 100% (2.6.0) |
xfce4-eyes-plugin | Andre Miranda | Complete | 100% (4.5.0) |
xfce4-fsguard-plugin | Landry | Complete | 100% (1.1.0) |
xfce4-genmon-plugin | ToZ | Complete | 100% (4.0.0) |
xfce4-indicator-plugin | Andrzej | Complete | 100% (2.3.4) |
xfce4-mailwatch-plugin | Xoan / Arkadiy | Complete | 100% (1.3.0) |
xfce4-mount-plugin | Timystery, Skunnyk | Complete | 100% (1.1.0) |
xfce4-mpc-plugin | Landry | Complete | 100% (0.5.0) |
xfce4-netload-plugin | Skunnyk, Landry | Complete | 100% (1.3.0) |
xfce4-places-plugin | Andre Miranda / Sean | Complete | 100% (1.8.0) |
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin | Andrzej | Complete | 100% |
xfce4-sample-plugin | Skunnyk | Complete | 100% |
xfce4-sensors-plugin | Timystery | Complete | 100% (1.3.0) |
xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin | Landry | Complete | 100% (0.5.0) |
xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin | ninetls | Complete | 100% |
xfce4-stopwatch-plugin | ncopa | Complete | 100% (0.3.1) |
xfce4-systemload-plugin | Landry | Complete | 100% (1.2.0) |
xfce4-time-out-plugin | Andre / Skunnyk | Complete | 100% (1.1.0) |
xfce4-timer-plugin | Dani | Complete | 100% (1.7.0) |
xfce4-verve-plugin | Isaac Schemm | Complete | 100% (2.0.0) |
xfce4-wavelan-plugin | Landry | Complete | 100% (0.6.0) |
xfce4-weather-plugin | Sean | Complete | 100% (0.9.0) |
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin | Graeme Gott | Complete | 100% (2.0.0) |
xfce4-xkb-plugin | ninetls | Complete | 100% (0.8.0) |
And others, see the ones you like/use in https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/