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Schedule for and Status of the Xfce 4.14 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
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)
currently ongoing Development Phase Support Xfce Supervise development, remind people of deadlines Porting to Gtk+ 3 and gdbus (no new features).
Release Phase Wait patiently Perform releases, remind people of deadlines Perform releases of own components if desired
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!
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
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

Dependencies

  • pkgconfig
  • automake
  • autoconf
  • libtool
  • gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22
    • Same version for gdk-3.0.
  • glib-2.0 >= 2.42
    • 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

Roadmap / Planned Features

Modules

Module Assignee Progress
exo Sean 100% (0.11.4)
garcon Eric 100% (0.6.0)
libxfce4ui Eric 100%
libxfce4util Eric 100%
thunar Andre, Alexander 95% (1.7.1)
thunar-volman Andre Miranda 100% (0.9.0)
tumbler Ali 100% (0.2.0)
xfce4-appfinder Eduard, Andre 90% (4.13.0)
xfce4-panel Andrzej, Simon 95% (4.13.1)
xfce4-power-manager Eric, Peter, Simon 100% (1.6.x)
xfce4-session Eric, Simon 100% (4.13.0)
xfce4-settings Sean 90% (4.13.0)
xfconf Ali 100%
xfdesktop Eric 100% (4.13.0)
xfwm4 ninetls / Olivier 90%

Applications

App Assignee Progress
gigolo Landry/? 50%?
mousepad codebrainz 100%
orage
parole Sean, Simon 100%
ristretto Igor progress/deprecation cleanup in 0.8.1
squeeze
xfbib
xfburn You can base your work on this branch
xfce4-dict Andre Miranda 100%, released 0.8.0
xfce4-mixer Mike Gelfand 50%
xfce4-notifyd Ali, Simon 100%, released 0.3.0
xfce4-screenshooter Andre Miranda 100%, released 1.9.0
xfce4-taskmanager Peter, Landry, Simon 100%
xfce4-terminal Igor 100%
xfce4-volumed
xfce4-volumed-pulse Simon 100%
xfdashboard 100%
xfmpc

Thunar Plugins

Plugin Assignee Progress (version = 100%)
thunar-archive-plugin Andre Miranda 0.4.0
thunar-media-tags-plugin Andre Miranda 0.3.0
thunar-shares-plugin Andre Miranda 0.3.0
thunar-vcs-plugin Andre Miranda 50%

Panel Plugins

  • all listed plugins are being worked on in their master branch in git
  • still TODO:
    • test with various Gtk3 versions (3.20, 3.22)
    • convert properties dialogs to gtkbuilder/ui files
    • figure out where GtkSwitch makes sense instead of Checkbox/ToggleButton
Module Assignee Progress (version = 100%)
xfce4-battery-plugin Andre Miranda 1.1.0
xfce4-calculator-plugin
xfce4-clipman-plugin Simon 1.4.0
xfce4-cpugraph-plugin Olivier Duclos 50%
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin Andre Miranda 1.1.90
xfce4-datetime-plugin Landry 0.7.0
xfce4-diskperf-plugin Landry 2.6.0
xfce4-embed-plugin
xfce4-eyes-plugin Andre Miranda 4.5.0
xfce4-fsguard-plugin Landry 1.1.0
xfce4-generic-slider-plugin
xfce4-genmon-plugin ToZ 4.0.0
xfce4-hardware-monitor-plugin
xfce4-indicator-plugin Andrzej 100%, since long ago
xfce4-kbdleds-plugin
xfce4-mailwatch-plugin
xfce4-mount-plugin Skunnyk 1.1.0
xfce4-mpc-plugin Landry 0.5.0
xfce4-netload-plugin Skunnyk/Landry 1.3.0
xfce4-notes-plugin m8t 90%
xfce4-places-plugin 50%, free to pick
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin Andrzej 100% since the beginning
xfce4-sample-plugin Skunnyk 100%
xfce4-sensors-plugin Fabian ?
xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin Landry 0.5.0
xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin ninetls 100% since the beginning
xfce4-stopwatch-plugin
xfce4-systemload-plugin Landry 1.2.0
xfce4-taskbar-plugin
xfce4-time-out-plugin Skunnyk 50%
xfce4-timer-plugin Dani 1.7.0
xfce4-verve-plugin Isaac Schemm 50%, not merged
xfce4-wavelan-plugin Landry 0.6.0
xfce4-weather-plugin
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin Graeme Gott 2.0.0
xfce4-wmdock-plugin
xfce4-xkb-plugin ninetls 0.8.0