dragoran wrote: > > > On 6/1/07, *David Nielsen* <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > fre, 01 06 2007 kl. 14:13 +0000, skrev Kevin Kofler: > > Matthias Clasen <mclasen <at> redhat.com <http://redhat.com>> > writes: > > > Some more notes about this draft: it puts feature freeze in > bold letters > > > at August 20, which is only a few days after gnome 2.20 beta1, > and is > > > > It's good to know that some folks from the GNOME camp are also > not happy with > > that schedule (see also David Nielsen's message about the test3 > freeze date). > > One one hand, it makes me feel better because this means the > schedule isn't > > favoring GNOME over KDE, on the other hand it makes the schedule > look even > > worse, because this means it's misaligned with both the GNOME > and KDE > > schedules, at least one of which is central to every desktop > user's experience > > of Fedora. > > To be honest normally I wouldn't have a problem favoring GNOME > over KDE, > it has always been the default desktop but in this case I think it > would > be entirely foolish to forget just how major a release KDE 4.0 is. We > have users waiting for it like crack addicts and it would look > better if > we were able to ship with the final release. > > Having the final version looks better to users not to mention it > will do > wonders for PR to both have KDE4 as one of the first stable distro > releases and to show that we really do care about KDE in defiance of > popular belief. > > I hear KDE 4.1 is aimed at being a 6 month release, this would > then mean > we align nicely for a F9 with KDE4 and GNOME 2.22. That would > accomplice > the goal of adjusting the schedule which was aimed for rather nicely.. > provided neither projects slips their release date. > > For KDE4 to hit on the final devel freeze we are merely talking > putting > back the schedule by about a week which if we push Test3 devel > freeze to > the the 25th of September that would allow us to ship Test3 with KDE > 4.0-rc1 and GNOME 2.20 - I'm hoping that will provide helpful for > getting testers to start using the release and we can accommodate both > major releases in the final release. > > Cut dates would then be: > September 19th - GNOME 2.20 > September 25th - KDE 4.0-rc1 > September 25th - Test3 devel freeze > October 1st - Test3 release > October 23th - KDE 4.0 final > October 23th - Final devel freeze. > November 7th - Final release > > - Is this insanity? > - If I'm to understand Rex KDE packagers get the tarballs in time to > make this? > - can we live with doing freezes on a Tuesday instead of a Monday? > > And we'd be roughly on schedule with GNOME and KDE for F9 > following that > considering a standard 6 month cycle. > > > +1 +1 -- Benjamin Lewis Fedora Ambassador ben.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://benl.co.uk./ PGP Key: 0x647E480C "In cases of major discrepancy, it is always reality that got it wrong" -- RFC 1118
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