Great release! and other thoughts

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Hi folks,

17.04 in released, and technically it is great! Perhaps the best we
have ever done. Well done, team! Great thanks to Rik, who carried much
of the load as a brand-new Kubuntu Developer.

On the other hand, I think we didn't promote it very well. I take
responsibility for part of that, and want to prepare better for the AA
release. Walter (wxl) was our actiing Release Manager this round, and
deserves a round of applause! He'll be stepping back however, and I'd
like to see a small team take over that job, and promotion as well,
since so much of the RM job is promotion and communication.

I would like to see a password-protected document with all of our
social media account names and passwords, and all members of the team
have access. We were very patchy getting the word out this cycle.
Perhaps we can have a checklist somewhere showing who is doing what,
so that all the bases are covered each time. Walter and I both made
guides to doing RM; both worth looking at if you are interested.
[1,2].

I spent the evening putting together a calendar of planned events -
the cycle dates are just calculated, not yet published. The KDE
Applications, Frameworks and Plasma dates are from the published
release schedules. I've added in some other events that we should
promote via social media.

Who knew the calendar could be so full, already?

Valorie

Probable 17.10 cycle dates
=====================

note on Yakkety calendar: October releases follow a 25-week schedule,
while April releases follow a 27-week schedule, to compensate for
year-end holidays
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5 - schedule can change
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Frameworks (tagging happens the
first Saturday of every month, and the public release is one week
later)
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/17.04_Release_Schedule

Document Freedom Day 2017: Last Wednesday of March, 29 March 2017
<http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/>

* Framworks 5.33: Sat April 8th, 2017
* Plasma 5.9.5 Bugfix: Tue 2017-04-25
* KDE Applications 17.04: Thursday, April 20, 2017

Hardware Freedom Day 2017: 3rd Saturday of April, 15 April 2017
<http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/>

Document Freedom Day 2017 - 2nd chance!: Last Wednesday of April, 26 April 2017

week 1: April 27th - Toolchain Uploaded

May 2017
week 2: May 5th - UOS (Tuesday - Thursday)

* KDE Applications 17.04.1: Thursday, May 11 2017
* Frameworks 5.34: Sat May 13th, 2017
* Plasma 5.8.7 LTS Bugfix: Tue 2017-05-23
* Plasma 5.10.0 Release: Tue 2017-05-30

week 5: ~May 26th - FeatureDefinitionFreeze

June 2017

* KDE Applications 17.04.2: Thursday, June 8, 2017
* Frameworks 5.3.5: Sat June 10, 2017
* Plasma 5.10.2 Bugfix: Tue 2017-06-13
* Plasma 5.10.3 Bugfix: Tue 2017-06-27

week 10: June 29 - Alpha 1 (for opt-in flavors)

July 2017

* Frameworks 5.3.6: Sat July 8, 2017
* KDE Applications 17.04.3: Thursday, July 13, 2017
* Plasma 5.10.4 Bugfix: Tue 2017-07-18

Akademy 2017, Almería, Spain: 22nd - 27th July

week 14: July 27th  - Alpha 2 (for opt-in flavors)

August 2017

* Frameworks 5.3.7: Sat August 12, 2017

week 17: August 17th - FeatureFreeze,  DebianImportFreeze

* Plasma 5.10.5 Bugfix: Tue 2017-08-22

week 18: August 24th - Beta 1 Freeze (Monday), Beta 1 (for opt-in flavors)

September 2016
week 20: ~September 8th - UserInterfaceFreeze

* Frameworks 5.3.8: Sat September 9, 2017

week 21: ~September 15th - DocumentationStringFreeze

Randa Meetings 2017:  2017-09-10 - 2017-09-16

Software Freedom Day 2017: 3rd Saturday of September, 16 September
2017 <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/>

* Plasma 5.11.0 Release: Tue 2017-09-26

week 22: September 21st - Final Beta Freeze,  Final Beta
week 23: ~September 29th - KernelFreeze,  NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline

October 2016
week 24: October 5th - FinalFreeze,  ReleaseCandidate, 
LanguagePackTranslationDeadline

* Plasma 5.11.1 Bugfix: Tue 2017-10-03

Ada Lovelace Day: second Tuesday of October, 10 October 2017
<http://findingada.com/about/>

week 25: October 12th - FinalRelease  Ubuntu 17.10

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