From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Anton Farygin Organization: ALT Linux Ltd. Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:23:05 +0400 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: To: devel@altlinux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: [devel] [gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg] Updated 6.9/7.0 schedule and release plan X-BeenThere: devel@altlinux.ru X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ALT Devel discussion list List-Id: ALT Devel discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:24:34 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: FYI. On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:15:43 -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote: > The original 6.9/7.0 schedule had 19 Aug 2005 for when the first full > release candidate (RC1) would be ready; however, we are still fixing > issues and adding support for more platforms. We hope that we are only a > few more weeks away from RC1, but that depends on how much help we have > working through the remaining tasks. So far, we have received feedback > from several very helpful testers and builders, and we want to thank them > for their efforts, but we need more help from everyone if we are to make > it to RC1. > > In preparation for future release candidates and eventually the official > release, we have put together a release plan page, which has the current > schedule, here: > > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/X11R6970ReleasePlan > > For past checkpoints in the schedule, we list the date when the work was > completed, but for future checkpoints, no fixed dates are given -- only > general time frames (e.g., XX Aug 2005). When work is complete for the > next checkpoint (RC1), we will tag the tree and create a new release > candidate for everyone to test. > > Note that RC1 is intended to be a full release candidate, which means it > is something that we would consider putting into production. After RC1, > we will only be working on bug fixes for both the monolithic and modular > trees. In order to reach that point, we need to complete the following: > > - Modularization work complete > - EXA drivers to be supported in initial release complete - Fix as many > bugs as possible > - Supported platforms building and running - Test infrastructure in place > - Tinderboxes running on supported platforms > > We will update this list and break it down in detail on the release plan > page as needed. > > In order to determine which platforms will be supported in the initial > modular release, we would like to hear from everyone who is in the process > of adding support for their platform and/or plans to have their platform > building and running before RC1 is created (i.e., in the next few weeks). > Currently, we know of: > > - Linux (x86, amd64, ia64, ppc, sparc) - Solaris (x86, amd64, sparc) > > Please add your name and OS/arch to the list above if you will have your > platform supported in RC1. > > Note that for the monolithic release, we plan to support the same set of > platforms supported in the X11R6.8 release. > > Alan Coopersmith > Adam Jackson > Kevin E. Martin