On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:59:38AM -0200, Felipe Sanches wrote:

I have never participated on a freesoftware project, so I dont know exactly how does the release schedule rolls. What comes after pre0 ? How many time does it take until pre1? Is pre0 the same that other projects call rc0 ? When do we have string freeze? How many time do translators have? At which date would you guess that we will have 0.46 released?

Yes, pre0 is essentially what other projects call rc0.

We anticipate creating a few preX releases before the official release. We don't have a policy for the number or date that these releases are made; it's driven by a) how soon we "feel ready" for the release, and b) how much time people (Ted and I in this case) have to produce the pre-releases.

I anticipate string freeze within a week or so. It's driven by how quickly we can attain the 500 point bug fix goal. We hope to give translators a few weeks to complete translations. It's encouraged to start work on translation now; while there may be a few string changes due to bug fixes and late features, we expect this to be fairly minimal.

One of the reasons that makes me ask these questions is the fact that I have been working on the filters more actively recently and I hope I am not messing the release schedule.

In general, at this stage, work that results in new or changed features should not be committed to SVN head; use an SVN branch (or hold it uncommitted locally but back up regularly). The focus should be on fixing bugs in features already committed.

When we move to Freeze, things will be tightened down further. However, at about that point we'll be branching into a release branch (0.46) and a development branch (trunk), and regular development can continue on trunk while the release branch will be much more strictly controlled.

Bryce