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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

Known Blockers

Modules

Module Assignee Status Progress
libxfce4ui Eric WIP 99% (4.13.4)
libxfce4util Eric WIP 99% (4.13.1)
xfce4-appfinder Eduard, Andre WIP 95% (4.13.0)
xfce4-panel Andrzej, Simon WIP 95% (4.13.3)
xfce4-session Eric, Simon WIP 99% (4.13.0)
xfconf Ali WIP 99% (4.13.4)
xfwm4 ninetls / Olivier WIP 90% (4.13.0)
exo Sean Complete 100% (0.12.0)
garcon Eric Complete 100% (0.6.0)
thunar Andre, Alexander Complete 100% (1.8.0)
thunar-volman Andre Miranda Complete 100% (0.9.0)
tumbler Ali Complete 100% (0.2.0)
xfce4-power-manager Eric, Peter, Simon Complete 100% (1.6.x)
xfce4-settings Sean Complete 100% (4.13.3)
xfdesktop Eric Complete 100% (4.13.1)

Applications

App Assignee Status Progress
orage Not Started 0%
ristretto Igor Stalled 50%, progress/deprecation cleanup in 0.8.1
squeeze Not Started 0%
xfburn Stalled 10%, You can base your work on this branch
xfce4-mixer WIP 50%
xfmpc Not Started 0%
gigolo Landry/Sean Complete 100% (0.4.90)
mousepad codebrainz Complete 100%
parole Sean, Simon Complete 100%
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%

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

  • All listed plugins are being worked on in their master branch in git
  • Nice to have but not required:
    • 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 Free to pick 80%
xfce4-clipman-plugin Simon 1.4.0
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin Andre Miranda 1.2.0
xfce4-cpugraph-plugin Olivier Duclos 50%
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 Will never see GTK3
xfce4-indicator-plugin Andrzej 100%, since long ago
xfce4-mailwatch-plugin
xfce4-mount-plugin Timystery, Skunnyk 1.1.0
xfce4-mpc-plugin Landry 0.5.0
xfce4-netload-plugin Skunnyk, Landry 1.3.0
xfce4-notes-plugin m8t 50% : panel plugin need to be ported
xfce4-places-plugin Free to pick 50%
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin Andrzej 100% since the beginning
xfce4-sample-plugin Skunnyk 100%
xfce4-sensors-plugin Timystery 1.3.0
xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin Landry 0.5.0
xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin ninetls 100% since the beginning
xfce4-systemload-plugin Landry 1.2.0
xfce4-time-out-plugin Skunnyk 50%
xfce4-timer-plugin Dani 1.7.0
xfce4-verve-plugin Isaac Schemm 2.0.0
xfce4-wavelan-plugin Landry 0.6.0
xfce4-weather-plugin Sean 0.9.0
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin Graeme Gott 2.0.0
xfce4-xkb-plugin ninetls 0.8.0

And others, see the ones you like/use in https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/