[Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.94 - Schedule proposal

[Simon Schampijer]

On 07/29/2011 04:32 PM, Chris Leonard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> based on our previous 6 months development cycle I have drafted a 0.94
>> release schedule [1]. As always it is aligned with the GNOME, Fedora and
>> Ubuntu cycle.
>>
>> As we are a bit late in planning and officially announcing the schedule this
>> will be a short cycle. If your Feature will miss the boat, no worries there
>> will be a next cycle [2].
>>
>> I think it is good to stick to our schedule model nerveless because it does
>> align with the other projects and it will help to strengthen our focus and
>> land a few smaller Features and hopefully a lot of bug fixes.
>>
>> This cycle we will not switch to GNOME 3 and the dynamic gtk bindings yet.
>> Hopefully we can advance on that matter for 0.96.
>>
>> Comments, thoughts welcome, if there are no major objections with that
>> proposal - let's start officially the 0.94 hacking!
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Simon
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.94/Roadmap
>
> Simon,
>
> I hope the Translation Team can expect to hear regular direct
> communication from the Release Manager on the Localization list (and
> not just forwards from me).  This is important in creating an
> atmosphere in which the localizers are appropriately acknowledged and
> engaged as full stakeholders in the release process.

Yes, of course, I will cc the localization list on status updates.

> I will do my usual bit in poking lang admins and the like, but I feel
> very strongly about direct communication to the localizers from the
> Development team as an important element of binding these two
> communities together in common goals.
>
> We'll also need to begin making plans for a proper freeze and
> branching on Pootle (*coff* dirakx).  That never really happened for
> 0.90 and while there is a Fructose 0.84 and a Fructose, it is a little
> unclear which would be used by someone making an 0.92 build.

Yes, indeed. Raffal can you comment here on the current situation?

> Hopefully we can work together to minimize any possible confusions
> going forward.

Absolutely!

Regards,
    Simon