GNOME 2.91.x Development Series
GNOME 2.91.x is an unstable development series intended for testing and hacking purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this unstable 2.91.x series will become the official 3.0 stable release. There are many ways you can get involved.
Plans for this release are documented on the RoadMap page. These plans do not necessarily cover every module and every feature that will be worked on, nor are they guaranteed to arrive in time. Maintainers, please keep the RoadMap page up to date where you can. :-)
When we are near feature-freeze, please mention the new features for the /ReleaseNotes.
Important information for module maintainers:
- Tarballs are due by 23:59 UTC on the Monday specified
- Freezes begin by 23:59 UTC on the Monday specified
If possible, try to make releases no sooner than 3 days before the tarballs are due. If you need to release early, a simple notification to gnome-i18n and gnome-doc-list would be helpful.
Branching practices, including who to email; also, please make sure everyone knows what branch you are using for the release if you aren't using git master
There's a MaintainersCorner wiki page with general helpful information
We are using the GNOME Target bugzilla field to track blocker bugs for 3.0. Those show up in the product overview for your module: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi
You should pay attention to the build status of your module and of dependencies in http://build.gnome.org to make sure that we keep the tree in a buildable state as we're moving closer to 3.0
Modulesets
We have now switched jhbuild to new modulesets. The details of these modulesets are still up for discussion and tweaking.
GNOME Core Dependencies: External Dependencies, and Developer Platform, Extended Developer Platform, Language Bindings
Schedule
GNOME wide targets for GNOME 3.0: GSettingsMigration, kill bonobo, kill deprecated gtk symbols, kill at-spi1, kill HAL, UseGseal, Use cairo instead deprecated GDK API, Gtk Rendering Cleanup, GtkObject removal, Migration from libunique to GtkApplication
Nice to have (not mandatory): Migrate from dbus-glib to GDBus, AppletsDbusMigration, PythonIntrospectionPorting (killing pygtk)
Week
Date
Task
Notes
September
Sep 29
GNOME 2.32.0 stable release
October
1
Oct 04
GNOME 2.91.0 unstable tarballs due
Oct 06
GNOME 2.91.0 unstable release
3
Oct 18
GNOME 2.91.1 unstable tarballs due
Oct 20
GNOME 2.91.1 unstable release
November
5
Nov 01
Module inclusion discussion heats up.
6
Nov 08
GNOME 2.91.2 unstable tarballs due
Module Freeze: new modules are chosen now.
Release Team meets about new module decisions for 3.0 with community input up to this point.
Nov 10
GNOME 2.91.2 unstable release
7
Nov 15
GNOME 2.32.1 stable tarballs due
Nov 17
GNOME 2.32.1 stable release
9
Nov 29
GNOME 2.91.3 unstable tarballs due
December
9
Dec 01
GNOME 2.91.3 unstable release
12
Dec 20
GNOME 2.91.4 unstable tarballs due
Dec 22
GNOME 2.91.4 unstable release
January
15
Jan 10
GNOME 2.91.5 unstable tarballs due
String Change Announcement Period: All string changes must be announced to both gnome-i18n@ and gnome-doc-list@.
UI Change Announcement Period: All user interface changes must be announced to gnome-doc-list@.
Jan 12
GNOME 2.91.5 unstable release
18
Jan 31
GNOME 2.91.6 unstable tarballs due
API/ABI Freeze for 2.91.x: developer APIs should be frozen at this point.
Feature Freeze: new functionality is chosen now.
February
18
Feb 02
GNOME 2.91.6 unstable release
21
Feb 21
GNOME 2.91.90 beta tarballs due
UI Freeze: No UI changes may be made without approval from the release-team and notification to the GDP (gnome-doc-list@)
Feb 23
GNOME 2.91.90 beta release
March
23
Mar 07
GNOME 2.91.91 beta tarballs due
String Freeze: no string changes may be made without confirmation from the l10n team (gnome-i18n@) and notification to both the release team and the GDP (gnome-doc-list@).
Mar 09
GNOME 2.91.91 beta release
25
Mar 21
GNOME 2.91.92 rc tarballs due
Hard Code Freeze: no source code changes can be made without approval from the release-team. Translation and documentation can continue.
Mar 23
GNOME 2.91.92 rc release
Mar 25
GNOME 2.91.93 rc2 tarballs due
26
Mar 28
GNOME 2.91.93 release
April
27
Apr 04
GNOME 3.0.0 newstable tarballs due
Hard Code Freeze ends, but other freezes remain in effect for the stable branch.
Apr 06
GNOME 3.0.0 newstable release
30
Apr 25
GNOME 3.0.1 newstable tarballs due
Apr 27
GNOME 3.0.1 newstable release