[Scummvm-devel] Plans for 1.1.0

[Johannes Schickel]

Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:44:17 +0100
> Johannes Schickel <lordhoto at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> just pinging for status: are we in code freeze now or not? At least I
>> didn't saw any testing announcement and/or comment in this thread
>> lately...
>>     
> No, we are not. I think we are shifting the start one week down.
>
>   

Guess that didn't work out either. I don't know whether that's because 
of you being busy or any other in-between status updates I missed.

Strangerke told me that Joost tries to look into the tools status this 
evening. IMHO as long as the CLI versions work fine, that might be good 
enough for the next release. At least I personally do not see too much 
hope that we will have someone with enough time to smooth the GUI 
experience popping up in the near future...

So if Joost's status report is ok, I guess we should really get things 
going. At least the current situation, that we might have a freeze 
everyday is a not too nice from a developers point of view (just think 
of the recent key modifier support/patch)...

If there are no strong feelings against starting with the release cycle 
this week I would propose the following schedule:

    Feb 23th: feature freeze (probably around 20 CET, if _sev has no 
time, I might get some post for release testing online)
    Mar  7th: branching
    Mar 28th: backend code freeze
    Apr 2nd: tagging
    Apr 11th: release

(Yes feature freeze tomorrow is intentional right here!) In case _sev is 
too busy these days, I might take a look at the bug tracker and check 
out which bugs we would want to have fixed (of course also based on the 
"left over" bugs from 1.0.0).

About the "backend code freeze", if a backend had not been checked 
status till that date, I would personally say it shouldn't be included 
in the release, means I would consider that a fixed date for our porters.

If you guys think we should wait till Sunday with the feature freeze and 
delay the original schedule by two weeks, that would be fine with me too.

// Johannes

PS: Feedback appreciated ;-).