Great release! and other thoughts

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Uh, I see that I left out some links, below:

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

(By the way, the calendar is under discussion in #ubuntu-release)

1. https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/ReleaseManagement

2. https://phabricator.kde.org/w/kubuntu/release-management/

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