[Qt-creator] 2.6 feature freeze

[André Pönitz]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:25:16AM +0000, eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
> 
> On 16 Aug 2012, at 10:50, ext Christian Kandeler wrote:
> 
> > On 24/07/12 23:07, ext eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
> >> Qt Creator 2.6 * Freeze wk30 (~Jul 24) * Beta + soft string freeze
> >> w32 (~Aug 7) * String freeze w34 (~Aug 21) * RC w36 (~Sep 4) *
> >> Release wk38 (~Sep 18)
> > 
> > Since there has not been a beta yet (at least to my knowledge), I
> > assume the other dates are no longer valid either.  Is there a new
> > plan yet? And is the freeze really in effect?
> 
> Sort of, even though we broke it in a few areas, which we found to not
> be quite ready yet, combined with the fact that many people went on
> long vacations. So the feature freeze a few weeks back was actually a
> bit premature, sorry about that.
> 
> So, the suggestion on the table is to
> 
> * do the "real" feature freeze next week on thursday
> * merge master > back to 2.6 before that, it doesn't contain
>   too many changes anyhow
> * go with the "regular" cycle of 2 weeks to beta, 4 weeks to rc
>   and 2 weeks to release after that (tentative as always,
>   depending on how many issues are found)

Sounds good.

I don't think that we really need the two weeks between the real freeze
and the beta this time due to the "freezish" period before, but then,
given that 2.6 has a couple of rather big changes in the core I doubt
having some room for stress testing would hurt.

I took the liberty to adapt http://qt-project.org/wiki/Releases
to the new plan.

Andre'