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Add your features to [[Schedules/KDE4/4.11 Feature Plan]] | Add your features to [[Schedules/KDE4/4.11 Feature Plan]] | ||
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You can also add http://www.kde.org/releaseschedule.ics as remote calendar to korganizer so you always have the release schedule near you. | You can also add http://www.kde.org/releaseschedule.ics as remote calendar to korganizer so you always have the release schedule near you. | ||
=== | === Wednesday, May 22, 2013: KDE 4.11 Soft Feature Freeze === | ||
Trunk is frozen for feature commits that are not listed in the planned feature document. Only bugfixes and the code implementing the listed features are to be committed after this date. The feature list also closes today. | Trunk is frozen for feature commits that are not listed in the planned feature document. Only bugfixes and the code implementing the listed features are to be committed after this date. The feature list also closes today. | ||
Features not already finished or not listed on the planned features page will have to wait until the next KDE SC release. | Features not already finished or not listed on the planned features page will have to wait until the next KDE SC release. | ||
=== | === Wednesday, May 29, 2013: KDE 4.11 Dependency Freeze === | ||
From this moment on it is not allowed to add new dependencies or bump dependencies versions. It is possible to get an exception for this. Post the patch to reviewboard and add the release-team as reviewer. We will check if the dependency is needed and is available on all platforms. | From this moment on it is not allowed to add new dependencies or bump dependencies versions. It is possible to get an exception for this. Post the patch to reviewboard and add the release-team as reviewer. We will check if the dependency is needed and is available on all platforms. | ||
In other words: If you have a feature that requires a new dependency or a version of a dependency that is higher than currently checked for in the build system, you need to have committed this change before this date. | In other words: If you have a feature that requires a new dependency or a version of a dependency that is higher than currently checked for in the build system, you need to have committed this change before this date. | ||
=== | === Wednesday, June 5, 2013: KDE 4.11 Soft Message Freeze === | ||
All translated messages (GUI strings) are frozen on this date. Only previously untranslated strings or clear errors in strings can be fixed. No major new strings changes should be done. You cannot add new strings, if you really need one ask kde-i18n-doc for an exception. It is ok to remove strings. Exception: Artwork (try to keep the number of new strings low anyways). Exception: Typo fixes can be fixed until the Hard Message Freeze, but you have to mail kde-i18n-doc saying you made a typo fix change. | All translated messages (GUI strings) are frozen on this date. Only previously untranslated strings or clear errors in strings can be fixed. No major new strings changes should be done. You cannot add new strings, if you really need one ask kde-i18n-doc for an exception. It is ok to remove strings. Exception: Artwork (try to keep the number of new strings low anyways). Exception: Typo fixes can be fixed until the Hard Message Freeze, but you have to mail kde-i18n-doc saying you made a typo fix change. | ||
=== | === Wednesday, June 5, 2013: KDE 4.11 Soft API Freeze === | ||
To allow the bindings people to have proper time to do their work in preparation to the final release, the API should now be mostly fixed. Changing API is allowed, but commits have to be cc'ed to the kde-bindings mailinglist. This is including older APIs and newly introduced libraries/APIs. | To allow the bindings people to have proper time to do their work in preparation to the final release, the API should now be mostly fixed. Changing API is allowed, but commits have to be cc'ed to the kde-bindings mailinglist. This is including older APIs and newly introduced libraries/APIs. | ||
=== | === Wednesday, June 5, 2013: KDE 4.11 Hard Feature Freeze === | ||
Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned feature document. Only bug fixes are allowed. | Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned feature document. Only bug fixes are allowed. | ||
=== | === Wednesday, June 12, 2013: KDE 4.11 Beta 1 Tagging and Release === | ||
Trunk is frozen for beta release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. The usual beta rules apply as soon as the Beta tarballs have been generated. | Trunk is frozen for beta release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. The usual beta rules apply as soon as the Beta tarballs have been generated. As soon as the tarballs have been confirmed to build and the Release Team thinks they meet enough quality it will be released | ||
=== Wednesday, June 26, 2013: KDE 4.11 Beta 2 Release === | === Wednesday, June 26, 2013: KDE 4.11 Beta 2 Tagging and Release === | ||
Trunk is frozen for beta release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. The usual beta rules apply as soon as the Beta tarballs have been generated. As soon as the tarballs have been confirmed to build and the Release Team thinks they meet enough quality it will be released | |||
=== Monday, July 8, 2013: KDE 4.11 Hard API Freeze === | === Monday, July 8, 2013: KDE 4.11 Hard API Freeze === | ||
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No more changes to documentation or handbooks after this date. For typos, spelling and simple grammar changes you have to mail kde-i18n-doc for approval. | No more changes to documentation or handbooks after this date. For typos, spelling and simple grammar changes you have to mail kde-i18n-doc for approval. | ||
=== Tuesday, July 9, 2013: KDE 4.11 Release Candidate 1 | === Tuesday, July 9, 2013: KDE 4.11 Tagging Freeze for Release Candidate 1 === | ||
During tagging freeze only compilation fixes for all platforms are allowed to be committed. Everything else (even showstopper fixes) *have* to be run through reviewboard, with the release-team and the affected maintainers as reviewer. | |||
=== Wednesday, July 10, 2013: KDE 4.11 Release Candidate 1 Release === | === Wednesday, July 10, 2013: KDE 4.11 Release Candidate 1 Tagging and Release === | ||
The release candidate is tagged from the branch. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed.As soon as the | The release candidate is tagged from the branch. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. As soon as the tarballs have been confirmed to build and the Release Team thinks they meet enough quality it will be released | ||
=== | === Tuesday, July 23, 2013: KDE 4.11 Tagging Freeze for Release Candidate 2 === | ||
During tagging freeze only compilation fixes for all platforms are allowed to be committed. Everything else (even showstopper fixes) *have* to be run through reviewboard, with the release-team and the affected maintainers as reviewer. | During tagging freeze only compilation fixes for all platforms are allowed to be committed. Everything else (even showstopper fixes) *have* to be run through reviewboard, with the release-team and the affected maintainers as reviewer. | ||
=== Wednesday, July 24, 2013: KDE 4.11 Release Candidate 2 Tagging and Release === | |||
The release candidate is tagged from the branch. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. As soon as the tarballs have been confirmed to build and the Release Team thinks they meet enough quality it will be released | |||
=== Wednesday, July 24, 2013: KDE 4.11 Release Candidate 2 Release === | |||
The release candidate is tagged from the branch. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed.As soon as the | |||
=== Wednesday, August 7, 2013: KDE 4.11 Final Tag === | === Wednesday, August 7, 2013: KDE 4.11 Final Tag === | ||
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Final release is released for general consumption. | Final release is released for general consumption. | ||
=== Thursday, | === Thursday, August 29, 2013: KDE 4.11.1 tagging === | ||
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | ||
=== Tuesday, | === Tuesday, September 3, 2013: KDE 4.11.1 release === | ||
A KDE minor release is released to the public. | A KDE minor release is released to the public. | ||
=== Thursday, | === Thursday, September 26, 2013: KDE 4.11.2 tagging === | ||
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | ||
=== Tuesday, | === Tuesday, October 1, 2013: KDE 4.11.2 release === | ||
A KDE minor release is released to the public. | A KDE minor release is released to the public. | ||
=== Thursday, | === Thursday, October 31, 2013: KDE 4.11.3 tagging === | ||
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | ||
=== Tuesday, | === Tuesday, November 5, 2013: KDE 4.11.3 release === | ||
A KDE minor release is released to the public. | A KDE minor release is released to the public. | ||
=== Thursday, | === Thursday, November 28, 2013: KDE 4.11.4 tagging === | ||
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | ||
=== Tuesday, | === Tuesday, December 3, 2013: KDE 4.11.4 release === | ||
A KDE minor release is released to the public. | A KDE minor release is released to the public. | ||
=== Thursday, January | === Thursday, January 2, 2014: KDE 4.11.5 tagging === | ||
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers. | ||
=== Tuesday, | === Tuesday, January 7, 2014: KDE 4.11.5 release === | ||
A KDE minor release is released to the public. | A KDE minor release is released to the public. | ||
Revision as of 23:05, 12 March 2013
Add your features to Schedules/KDE4/4.11 Feature Plan
All deadlines are due 23:59 UTC, but if you need a few more hours, notify someone from the release team.
You can also add http://www.kde.org/releaseschedule.ics as remote calendar to korganizer so you always have the release schedule near you.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013: KDE 4.11 Soft Feature Freeze
Trunk is frozen for feature commits that are not listed in the planned feature document. Only bugfixes and the code implementing the listed features are to be committed after this date. The feature list also closes today.
Features not already finished or not listed on the planned features page will have to wait until the next KDE SC release.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013: KDE 4.11 Dependency Freeze
From this moment on it is not allowed to add new dependencies or bump dependencies versions. It is possible to get an exception for this. Post the patch to reviewboard and add the release-team as reviewer. We will check if the dependency is needed and is available on all platforms.
In other words: If you have a feature that requires a new dependency or a version of a dependency that is higher than currently checked for in the build system, you need to have committed this change before this date.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013: KDE 4.11 Soft Message Freeze
All translated messages (GUI strings) are frozen on this date. Only previously untranslated strings or clear errors in strings can be fixed. No major new strings changes should be done. You cannot add new strings, if you really need one ask kde-i18n-doc for an exception. It is ok to remove strings. Exception: Artwork (try to keep the number of new strings low anyways). Exception: Typo fixes can be fixed until the Hard Message Freeze, but you have to mail kde-i18n-doc saying you made a typo fix change.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013: KDE 4.11 Soft API Freeze
To allow the bindings people to have proper time to do their work in preparation to the final release, the API should now be mostly fixed. Changing API is allowed, but commits have to be cc'ed to the kde-bindings mailinglist. This is including older APIs and newly introduced libraries/APIs.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013: KDE 4.11 Hard Feature Freeze
Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned feature document. Only bug fixes are allowed.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013: KDE 4.11 Beta 1 Tagging and Release
Trunk is frozen for beta release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. The usual beta rules apply as soon as the Beta tarballs have been generated. As soon as the tarballs have been confirmed to build and the Release Team thinks they meet enough quality it will be released
Wednesday, June 26, 2013: KDE 4.11 Beta 2 Tagging and Release
Trunk is frozen for beta release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. The usual beta rules apply as soon as the Beta tarballs have been generated. As soon as the tarballs have been confirmed to build and the Release Team thinks they meet enough quality it will be released
Monday, July 8, 2013: KDE 4.11 Hard API Freeze
To allow the bindings people to have proper time to do there work in preparation to the final release, the API is now frozen. No more changes to APIs or header files (except docs) after this date, including older APIs and newly introduced libraries/APIs.
Monday, July 8, 2013: KDE 4.11 Hard Message Freeze
Up to now you were able to do typo changes, but you had to mail kde-i18n-doc saying you made a typo fix change. From this moment on you need to contact kde-i18n-doc for every single string change, if noone objects in 5 days you can commit the change.
Monday, July 8, 2013: KDE 4.11 Artwork and Bindings Freeze
All artwork is frozen on this date. No new artwork should be added. Existing artwork can continue to be tweaked and fixed.
No new additions to the language bindings, except optional bindings as permitting by the kde-bindings team.
Monday, July 8, 2013: KDE 4.11 Documentation Freeze
No more changes to documentation or handbooks after this date. For typos, spelling and simple grammar changes you have to mail kde-i18n-doc for approval.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013: KDE 4.11 Tagging Freeze for Release Candidate 1
During tagging freeze only compilation fixes for all platforms are allowed to be committed. Everything else (even showstopper fixes) *have* to be run through reviewboard, with the release-team and the affected maintainers as reviewer.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013: KDE 4.11 Release Candidate 1 Tagging and Release
The release candidate is tagged from the branch. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. As soon as the tarballs have been confirmed to build and the Release Team thinks they meet enough quality it will be released
Tuesday, July 23, 2013: KDE 4.11 Tagging Freeze for Release Candidate 2
During tagging freeze only compilation fixes for all platforms are allowed to be committed. Everything else (even showstopper fixes) *have* to be run through reviewboard, with the release-team and the affected maintainers as reviewer.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013: KDE 4.11 Release Candidate 2 Tagging and Release
The release candidate is tagged from the branch. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed. As soon as the tarballs have been confirmed to build and the Release Team thinks they meet enough quality it will be released
Wednesday, August 7, 2013: KDE 4.11 Final Tag
The branch is frozen for final release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013: KDE 4.11 Release
Final release is released for general consumption.
Thursday, August 29, 2013: KDE 4.11.1 tagging
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013: KDE 4.11.1 release
A KDE minor release is released to the public.
Thursday, September 26, 2013: KDE 4.11.2 tagging
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013: KDE 4.11.2 release
A KDE minor release is released to the public.
Thursday, October 31, 2013: KDE 4.11.3 tagging
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013: KDE 4.11.3 release
A KDE minor release is released to the public.
Thursday, November 28, 2013: KDE 4.11.4 tagging
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013: KDE 4.11.4 release
A KDE minor release is released to the public.
Thursday, January 2, 2014: KDE 4.11.5 tagging
A KDE minor release is tagged and made available to the packagers.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014: KDE 4.11.5 release
A KDE minor release is released to the public.