Re: 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
>

I think this is realistic. CVS HEAD is now very stable. Certainly way more
stable than 2.2.0 and maybe even more stable than 2.2.8.

I'm hoping we can reach the point soon where sum1 has to try for more than
30 minutes before finding a crasher :-)

Cheers

Martin

> 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 14:47:18 2005