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Schedule for the Xfce 4.8 Development Cycle
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, deadline reminders | 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 | ||
2010-02-01 | Release Phase | Wait patiently | Perform releases | Perform releases of own components if desired |
2010-02-01 | Feature Freeze | Prepare release announcements 2 days before, release Xfce X.Ypre1 | Make sure the latest development release is in good shape and uploaded | |
2010-03-01 | 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 | Code Freeze | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce X.Ypre3, create ELS branches | Make sure the latest development release is in good shapre or all features are finished in master | |
2010-04-12 | 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 |