2.4 timetable update

A lot of hard work has been done in this past week or so and we are
making good progress, my thanks to everyone.

This is the proposed plan to get 2.4 out of the way:

Fri, June 10:
        * 2.3.1 tagged and released as soon as the binaries can be
          built; serious publicity to get this releases tested as
          widely as possible.
        * simulatenous string freeze, translators notified.

Fri, June 24:
        * 2.3.99 tagged and released; nothing but essential bugfixes
          from this point onwards.

Fri, July 8:
        * 2.4 tagged, binaries build and tested

Tue, July 12:
        * official release, press release, etc.

Fri, July 29:
        * tree branched for 2.5

Whether we can stick to this depends on (a) what feedback there will be
from the 2.3.1 release, and (b) what progress is made between 2.3.1 and
2.3.99 on the essential issues. Essential issues are:

        1. Regressions from 2.2
        2. Known crashers and hangs that are reproducible in realistic
           use.

There are other issues, which I do not want to hold the release for;
these include:

        1. Plugins not available for win32 (e.g., link grammar); this
           can be remedied later (at this stage I do not want to dilute
           the limited win32 resources we have).

        2. State of cocoa port: from what I can gather 2.3 cocoa is
           a bit behind the rest. I think this has to do with the
           decission to work on STABLE rather than HEAD and the cocoa
           guys might want to review that strategy for 2.5; in any case
           I do not want to hold the release because of this -- you have
           been warned of the release date for months now.

Constructive comments and suggestions welcome.

Tomas

                
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Received on Wed Jun 8 12:10:03 2005