Gnome plans for the lenny cycle

[Gustavo Franco]

On 4/12/07, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he at debian.org> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> The release team is currently working on a schedule for the lenny
> release cycle. For that, we want to gather some data from the bigger
> software packaging teams in Debian first.

[ Wearing my debian-desktop and pkg-gnome contributor hat here ]

Hi Marc,

I would like to suggest a online meeting with the groups admins and a
debate channel running in parallel with the public and others group
contributors.

> We would like to know which major upstream versions of Gnome are
> expected to be released in the next 24 months and how much time you
> expect them to need to get stable enough for a Debian stable release.

2.18 - 1st half 2007
2.20 - 2nd half 2007
2.22 - 1st half 2008
2.24 - 2nd half 2008
2.26 - 1st half 2009

oh well, 3.0 series can come in and replace from 2.22, just a random
note not something decided by upstream.

> Our current, very rough plans would mean a release in 18 months with some
> padding in both directions, which would lead to a lenny release around
> October 2008. We expect to shuffle this a bit around to fit everyone's
> needs, so please tell us if this date works for you.

I would be glad to see Lenny with GNOME 2.22 and released in the 1st
half of 2008, or postponed for late 2nd half (and not october) with
2.24.

lool, could you please elaborate on what we discussed on IRC some days
ago about why we shipped 2.14 with just some 2.16 modules in Etch? The
"december" factor and stuff like that? TIA.

regards,
-- stratus
http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com