Re: [Tails-dev] Tails 0.11 release plan

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Autor: sajolida
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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] Tails 0.11 release plan
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> Hi,
>
> Facts and fictions:
>
>   - Firefox 10: 2012-01-03
>   - Firefox 11: 2012-03-13
>   - Firefox 12: 2012-04-24
>   - about 1-2 weeks, after a given Firefox release, before iceweasel
>     and the addons suite catch up
>   - Tor 0.2.3 final: "nickm: I'd like to be able to promise 0.2.3.x by
>     end-of-march, but I have no way to guarantee that"

>
> So it seems reasonable to me to aim at April 20th for the next major
> Tails release; Tor 0.2.3 may be ready in time to get in there, but it
> may well not be; who knows; Tails 0.11 would ship iceweasel 11.
>
> This means in a bit more than three months. We could use a bit more
> than two months for development, and one full months for bug fixing,
> testing and release process; that would be something like:
>
> 2012-03-20: big features freeze
> .... documentation writers and translators, heads up ....
> 2012-04-01: deep freeze and RC1
> .... test test test ....
> .... any number of release candidates ....
> 2012-04-20: Tails 0.11 final


Great. I like the idea of having a two-step freeze. I think it will
further improve this trend of documenting as we release.

> This late? Yeah. We'll have to ship one or two quick point-releases
> until then anyway. So there's room for bug fixing.
>
> My feeling for these last three months is that preparing releases ate
> a bit too much time; fast-paced releases are exciting and great and
> all, but I think we currently need more time to *focus* on and
> complete a few big, major pieces of work:
>
> - on the features side, I'm thinking of USB installer, persistence and
> tails-greeter
> - on the infrastructure side, I'm thinking of APT repository, new web
> forum, and Git split
> - I'm not aware of specific goals on the documentation and translation
> sides, but I'm convinced more high quality work will be done in
> these areas, as it's been constantly the case for a while.


On the documentation sidem a nice goal would be great to finish cleaning
up all the fixmes inherited from the walkthrough.

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sajolida