[Sugar-devel] Roadmap to 0.88 --- Proposal

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi,

I have written a proposal for the new 0.88 schedule [1]. Basically, I 
followed the GNOME schedule for 2.30 [2]. Following in terms of dates, 
and I have added certain new freezes we did not have before.

In detail:
- tarballs due will be on Mondays, and the release on Wednesdays: I hope 
this will allow us to see the tarballs packaged by the end of the week 
by the distributions ---> getting more testing done over the weekend

- UI Freeze added: No UI changes may be made without approval from the 
release-team and notification to the documentation list. Having such a 
freeze helps documentation efforts, and to not introduce workflow 
regressions and issues late in the cycle.

- The feature freeze and API freeze is earlier compared to previous 
cycles. This should help to get a more stable release at the envisioned 
release date. After this shortened release cycle, from one feature 
freeze to the next one, there will be always 6 months. So the same 
amount of time to allow for development of features.

- To allow for long term planning, I have drafted the 0.90 schedule, too 
[3]. This should help to schedule bigger features.

- Testing: I hope to see much much more testing in this release cycle. 
Two things should help here: a) I encourage the creation of a testing 
team. b) The 0.88 release will be packaged early. For testing purposes 
0.88 will be packaged for F12. Other distributions are encouraged to do 
similar.

- Feature Process: We will follow the process [4] defined in the 0.86 
cycle. It will be communicated another time.

- Getting it into a release: As we follow the same schedule as GNOME is, 
we should have no issues in getting our packages into the distributions 
in time. See the F13 [5] for example.


Comments welcome,
    Simon


[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule
[2] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentynine
[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule
[4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule