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Author: Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com Date: Fri May 2 13:44:35 2008 -0700
Add code freeze announcement
Based on Dan Kegel's mail.
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From: Maarten Lankhorst crumb@virgo23.smo.corp.google.com Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:39:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add code freeze announcement
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diff --git a/news/2008050202.xml b/news/2008050202.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc477cd --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2008050202.xml @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +<news> +<date>May 2, 2008</date> +<title>Code freeze in effect, on towards wine 1.0!</title> +<body> +<p>Wine is finally in code freeze in preparation for releasing wine 1.0, and +we need your help!</p> + +<p>If you are a user, now would be the time to help us find regressions and +file them at <a href="http://bugs.winehq.org">bugzilla</a> so we know what +we have to fix.</p> + +<p>According to <a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan">Wine's +release plan</a>, wine-1.0.0-rc1, will be the first release candidate for 1.0. +It is expected to be released at 09th of May 2008.</p> + +<p>The code freeze will be less rigid at first, but we're serious about not +destabilizing Wine at this point. So go ahead and post your patches, but make +sure you've got your ducks in a row, and don't be surprised if Alexandre +pushes back.</p> + +<p>During the code freeze, patches that are simple, come with a conformance +test, fix a regression and/or are low risk are more likely to get in than +other patches. This has always been true, but it's even more true during a +code freeze. We will actively discourage patches that might endanger a June +1.0 release.</p> + +<p>There are <a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Wine&target_milestone=1.0.0&order=bugs.bug_severity"> +45 open 1.0 bugs</a> as of 2 May. Most of these will simply be rolled over +to be fixed for a later release; we only have time to fix a few, and much +as we'd like to fix the rest, most are not showstoppers.</p> +</body> +</news>