[Sugar-devel] Proposal for 0.96 schedule

[Simon Schampijer]

On 10/19/2011 05:19 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have outlined a possible 0.96 schedule at [1]. The following things
> have been changed/adjusted due to experiences from previous schedules:
>
> * I want to make sure we have early releases already to gather feedback
> of the current state. Those may break and have issues but some of the
> testers may want to have a look at them already.
>
> * We will have a feature submission deadline to be able to do a bit of
> planning and to get feedback about those features from the community.
> Also there will be a date when the accepted features are announced. No
> new features are accepted for proposal for that cycle after that date.
>
> * After the feature freeze we have a window of 4 weeks to make UI and
> string adjustments. This is important as often we get feedback when the
> features landed and need to adjust the UI including the strings. The UI
> and string freeze is at the same date, no need to have the string freeze
> at a later date.
>
> * We have a window of 4 weeks for bug fixes and stabilization after the
> UI/string freeze.
>
> As always the schedule is aligned with the GNOME schedule (3.4) and the
> upcoming Fedora 17 schedule.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Roadmap#Schedule

Since I got rather positive feedback on the schedule, we run with it 
now. Mark your calendar for March the 28th - this is the planed release 
date for Sugar 0.96.

Please follow the [ANNOUNCE] emails on the sugar-devel mailing list for 
the various phases of this development cycle.

Regards,
    Simon