Friendly Reminder. technically in effect 11 November 23:59 UTC (but nobody cares if you go over by a few hours)
Contact the Release Team (release-t...@kde.org) if you need more time (as in a few days) On Sunday 07 November 2010 3:29:34 pm Tom Albers wrote: > Hi all, > > Please note that the following freezes will become active this week: > > Thursday, November 11, 2010: 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. 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. > > Thursday, November 11, 2010: 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. > > Thursday, November 11, 2010: 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. > > Thursday, November 11, 2010: Hard Feature Freeze > Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned > feature document. Only bug fixes are allowed. > > After that, on Thursday, November 18, 2010: Beta 1 Tagging is planned. I will > not warn for every item on the schedule > (http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.6_Release_Schedule), but I figured > this one was important enough. > > Best, > -- Allen Winter | al...@kdab.net | Software Engineer KDAB (USA), LLC, a KDAB Group company Tel. USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322), Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
