[dev] Release plan

[Dominic Ijichi]

Hi,

I use a really heavily hacked version of Horde/Imp taken from CVS a year or two
ago when work started on Horde3/IMP4.  I still find it much nicer to use than
the current versions interface-wise and would like to apply my facelift to the
current codebase to bring it back to current.

But it was quite a hack the first time round and might involve some code change,
is this the right time to do it, or wait until a beta/RC is released?

Screenshots here:
http://willow.ijichi.org/imp/

dom

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> So, this is my release plan:
> 
> Note that this matters only for the applications of the first release round,
> i.e. Horde, IMP, Turba, Ingo, Chora, Kronolith, Nag, and Mnemo.
> 
> I'm going to release the BETA versions next week. We will then enter the
> "major feature freeze mode". That means that only bug fixes and small
> feature enhancements and completions are allowed to be committed.
> 
> After one to two weeks I'll start the release candidate phase. Release
> candidates will be released once per week until we think they are stable
> enough to release the final versions. During this period we are in complete
> feature freeze mode, i.e. only bug fixes, documentation and translations are
> allowed to be committed.
> 
> I reconsidered the original branching plan and will now try to avoid
> branching as long as possible, ideally until the final releases, for two
> reasons: To avoid the hassle of merging as long as possible, and to force
> us to spend our time on bug fixes. This goes a bit beyond the nature of
> volunteer oss development but this phase will only last for a few weeks and
> we won't get the releases out of the door in this life otherwise.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Jan.
> 
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