Re: [Tails-dev] Tails 0.11 release plan

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Author: alan
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Tails 0.11 release plan

Hi,

sajolida:
> intrigeri:
> > 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.
>

Sounds fine to me.

> > This late? Yeah. We'll have to ship one or two quick point-releases
> > until then anyway. So there's room for bug fixing.
> >

I think it's worth for a bugfix release soon, seeing:

- last security updates;
- the really annoying bug with the script eating CPU and filling memory
while using Tails offline;
- a bug making MAT hardly usable: "clean (strict)" not working from the
gui (bug already reported upstream);
- probably other recently fixed issued.

> > 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.
>

Agrees it would be really nice, even if I'm not sure I'll have enough time to
contribute to it.

Cheers,

Alan


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