Inkscape 0.49 Proposed Release Plan

Hey All,

The following is based on previous release plans. Let me know if
there's anything missing. One thing I want to do differently is the
bug hunt. No score for this release, only going for bugs milestoned
for 0.49 instead. This also means we need to hit the tracker to ensure
the milestoned ones are correct and to milestone and must fixes. The
number of bugs already fixed in trunk is huge, so getting the work out
for further testing "soon" is better. Dates are subject to change as
always, hopefully they could be moved up (with the exception of the
the time between Feature Freeze and Hard Freeze, for the sake of the
translators). Translators, I would recommend getting started sooner
rather than later.

1.  Open development.     (In Progress)

2.  Chill.         (September 21, 2012)
                     Development focuses on wrapping up.
                     No further refactoring.
                     Identify 'make distcheck' issues
                     Triage bug reports
                     Run an About Screen contest
                     First draft of Release Notes.
                     Update tutorials and other docs

3.  Frost.        (October 5, 2012)
                     Most development complete.
                     Release Notes should be >90% filled in.
                     Bug Hunt: Target those milestoned for 0.49.
                     Post alpha quality tarball.

4.  Feature Freeze.  (October 26, 2012)
                     No further development work.
                     Disable features that can't be finished in time.
                     Focus on critical bug fixing.
                     Finalize all tutorials, docs, etc.
                     Finalize all extensions.
                     Translators create/update translations.
                     Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck'
                     Post beta quality tarball.

5.  Hard freeze.   (November 23, 2012)
                     Only release wardens can commit to mainline.
                     No further string changes.
                     Focus on release-critical bug fixing.
                     Finalize translations, release notes, etc.
                     Post Release Candidate tarball.
                     Packagers test creating pkgs.

6.  Branch.     (December 7, 2012)
                     Establish the Stable Branch for release
                     Complete any late-late-late work.
                     Final verification of packaging, release notes,
                     docs, etc.
                     Publish more release candidates until ready for
                     release.
                     Plan 0.49.1+ release(s), as needed

7.  Release.   (December 21, 2012)
                     Post inkscape-0.49.tar.gz
                     Post packages
                     Post official announcements

8.  Open development.


Yes, it seems like a ridiculously short timeframe given our history of
making releases happen and how much we've strayed in the past. I do
however feel it is doable given the change in the bug hunt requirement
for this cycle. That usually holds us up. Also, no platform specific
bugs will hold up this release. We will release for specific platforms
as issues are taken care of.

If anyone has objections or concerns, please speak up. As stated in
the past... this is doable. We're good, we're smart, we're competent,
and we have the resources... we just need to be focused to make this
happen. Let's do this!

Cheers,
Josh

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Josh Andler wrote:

> 7.  Release.   (December 21, 2012)
>                      Post inkscape-0.49.tar.gz
>                      Post packages
>                      Post official announcements

No comments from me other than it's dangerously close to Xmas and a
variety of other religious holidays. Sounds like a call for failure to
me.

Alexandre Prokoudine
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre.prokoudine@...> wrote:
> No comments from me other than it's dangerously close to Xmas and a
> variety of other religious holidays. Sounds like a call for failure to
> me.

I agree that it's dangerously close... but the only place I could trim
time would be the timeframe we allot mainly for translations. It seems
greatly unfair to do so given the number of string changes we've had.
However, if I can convince them to get started at Feature Freeze time,
perhaps we could agree to reducing it by 1 week.

Again, we may be able to luck out and be able to trim other times more
if our devs really hammer the bug fixing. Provided he's not too busy,
I think the way John Smith has been hammering bugs, this could be a
reality.

Cheers,
Josh

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On 28 August 2012 20:23, Josh Andler <scislac@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine
> <alexandre.prokoudine@...> wrote:
>> No comments from me other than it's dangerously close to Xmas and a
>> variety of other religious holidays. Sounds like a call for failure to
>> me.
>
> I agree that it's dangerously close... but the only place I could trim
> time would be the timeframe we allot mainly for translations.

So, how about extending it instead to hit just after the New Year? It
seems to me that many contributors might be able to commit more time
over the festive period?

M.
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Marcin Floryan <mfloryan@...> wrote:
> So, how about extending it instead to hit just after the New Year? It
> seems to me that many contributors might be able to commit more time
> over the festive period?

If I'm remembering correctly, things typically get slow for a few days
around Xmas in particular. We could always shoot for the 30th
instead... but feels a little odd since it's between holidays. Either
way, I want to see it released before the end of the year. By the end
of 2012 has been the official response when people have been asking
when it will be out.

Cheers,
Josh

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