[Qgis-community-team] coordinating with release team for v1.0

[Otto Dassau]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:28:45 -0300
"Tim Sutton" <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi Tara
> 
> 2008/7/8 Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com>:
> > It's been very useful for me to follow the release-team mailing list through
> > the v0.11 release.
> > Below is a draft of a request to the release team. They now have v 0.11 out
> > the door and are looking ahead to v1.0, so this seems like a good time to
> > address these issues.
> 
> Small correction - official branch for release is still on hold
> pausing the resolution of a few key issues. Once I do the branch
> expect 7 more days for packagers to get their packages ready, at which
> point we officially announce the release.
> 
> 
> > Please add other items to the list if you can think of anything we will need
> > from the release team to be successful in our manual rewrite.
> >
> > Dear QGIS Release Team:
> > When the feature freeze takes effect, the manual team will start rewriting
> > the manual. This rewrite is much more than a simple update and we will be
> > hard-pressed to complete this promptly, so I would like to coordinate with
> > the release team as much as possible.
> 
> Great! We would like to and be happy to coordinate with you on this.
> 
> > We will be writing the manual to be
> > consistent with the GUI as of the feature freeze, and then modifying to
> > accommodate changes in the GUI that are made later.
> > For this to work smoothly, we will need the following:
> > 1. Windows and Mac builds after the feature freeze (~Aug 25)
> 
> Right this is something we need to take up with packagers. I'll add /
> emphasise in the 1.0 checklist when I create it that we need test
> packages. If you are able to use Linux packages too it would be good
> since these can be generated much more rapidly than win & mac
> packages. Anne would you be up for taking on the responsibility of
> coordinating with packages to get the test and final packages made and
> the packages uploaded? If yes contact me and I'll make sure you get
> appropriate server access etc?
> 
> > 2. a changelog for the period up to the feature freeze (July7 to ~Aug 25)
> 
> Yes agreed,  we will need to try to get the changelog out timeously
> then - Richard (when you return from your 2week vacation) could you
> take responsibility for this?
> 
> > 3. another changelog for the period after the feature freeze up to the GUI
> > freeze (~Aug 25 to ~Sep 15)
> 
> Will this be needed?  Once we feature freeze any changes to the gui
> until the gui freeze will be bug fixes only and the feature set should
> remain the same. By change log here I assume you are referring to the
> visual changelogs we have started doing and the abridged change logs
> like you will find in help->about?
> 
> > 4. other??
> 
> We have started using txt2tags for the changelogs now too so you can
> easily generate them as LaTeX which should save you some effort. We
> will do the same for the final 1.0 release.
> 
> We should also consider whether the brochure needs refreshing with the
> release of 1.0?

I will ask Sascha Wernicke (Press Material Team Lead) if he can do this and
coordinate with translators. It won't be much work I guess.

regards,
 Otto

> >
> > Would someone on the release team be willing to take responsibility for each
> > task,
> 
> Lets see if Anne and Richard are willing to take on the tasks, if now
> Ill help you directly.
> 
> >and give us a time estimate of how soon after the respective freezes
> > could we expect to have these?
> 
> Let us get 0.11.0 properly out the way and then I'll create the 1.0
> checklist and we can put in timings into that (you are all welcome to
> edit the checklists and add items and dependencies to it). If you do
> edit the checklist with items that need to be handled on a recurring
> basis, please also add them to the master checklist template so they
> are automatically included for future releases.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> >
> > Thanks, Tara
> >
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