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Hi all,<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:62d43d10-83e6-6b6a-7090-b64fe1c0306f@scummvm.org">
Looking at our release schedule, the final week before
hard-freezing branch-2-6, which will eventually evolve into
ScummVM 2.6.0 is ahead!</blockquote>
<br>
one week has passed: <b>branch-2-6 is now entirely frozen</b>!<br>
<br>
However, as always, there are some exceptions.<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li><b>Fixing the remaining bug marked as blocker (#13566).</b><br>
Commits/contributions that are made in order to fix this bug are
still <i>very</i> welcome and backporting those commits to
branch-2-6 is <i>allowed</i> even after this full-freeze
announcement.</li>
<li><b>Ports backend code is <i>not</i> frozen.<br>
</b>Commits/contributions that touch port-specific backend code
are allowed to be backported into branch-2-6.</li>
<li><b>Documentation<br>
</b>Commits/contributions that modify our documentation related
files (e.g. NEWS, the docportal...) are allowed to be backported
into branch-2-6. Please use this opportunity to add any
noteworthy entries to the NEWS file that still might be missing.</li>
<li><b>Translations<br>
</b>Contributions towards the GUI translations are still allowed
via weblate.scummvm.org. The final translations.dat datafile
will be created right before tagging.</li>
</ol>
<p>According to our schedule, the next big milestone will be</p>
<p> <b>July 16 (Saturday): Final branch 2-6-0 created, </b><b><span
class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag"></span>release
tagged</span></b><b>, porters start submitting builds</b><br>
</p>
<p>Tagging will take place at around 20:00 UTC. I'll announce the
exact tagging date a couple of hours before we'll create the tag
which will also start a period where <i>absolutely no changes
will be allowed. </i>(maybe I should call this period <i>permafrost...</i>)</p>
<p>As always, I encourage porters to ramp up their testing
facilities 😉</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the <i>master</i> branch continues to operate as
usual without any freeze.</p>
<p>All the best<br>
Lothar<br>
</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Lothar Serra Mari
ScummVM Co-Lead</pre>
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