This is an old revision of the document!
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, remind people of deadlines | 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 (dependencies, unguaranteed feature preview) | ||
| 2010-02-01 - 2010-04-12 | Release Phase | Wait patiently | Perform releases, remind people of deadlines | Perform releases of own components if desired |
| 2010-02-01 | Xfce X.Ypre1 (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 | Xfce X.Ypre2 (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 | Xfce X.Ypre3 (Code Freeze) | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce X.Ypre3, create ELS branches | Make sure the latest development release is in good shape, or that code is solid/finished in master | |
| 2010-04-12 | Xfce X.Y (Final 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 |