Roadmap/11.2

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This is a wiki dump from project manager's planning - dates are subject to change, especially those on weekends.

Thu, Apr 23 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 1 release

• Milestone: snapshot release without agenda. We release it once we have several new key components in.

Thu, May 28 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 release

• Kernel and installer work on a limited range of machines.
• Bootable ISO with kernel, installer and all tool chain packages updated.
• Start install and functional tests on those features which are available.

Thu, Jun 04 Toolchain Freeze

• Milestone: Toolchain is feature frozen

Tue, Jun 30 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 release

between Jul 7 and 31 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 release

Fri, Jul 31 openSUSE 11.2 Component Freeze

• Milestone: Feature and version freeze for the base system
• Milestone: Kernel and install works on most targeted machines.
• Preliminary Authoring Deadline for localized doc files (ADL loc prelim)

Thu, Aug 06 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 5 Release

• Milestone: installation workflow is feature frozen
• Proofreading of all software starts so that we have a new baseline.
• Milestone: Feature and version freeze for the complete distribution (exception: patchlevel update of leaf packages until Milestone 6)
• Milestone: All features are coding and function complete.
• Milestone: Kernel and install works on all targeted machines.
• Milestone: Last round of software translation starts - "hard text freeze"
• Milestone: Documentation deadline ("authoring deadline") for localized manuals, proofing starts, first source drop (locdrop) to Localization for volume estimates

Mon, Aug 17 openSUSE 11.2 Crypto Freeze

• Milestone: Packages containing cryptographic routines are frozen (ECR)

Thu, Aug 20 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 Release

• Milestone: Patchlevel update of leaf packages (packages that are not on the DVD) finished

Thu, Sep 10 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 Release

• Milestone: First localized build
• Milestone: Localization testing starts
• Milestone: Only major/critical/blocker bugfixes allowed.
• Milestone: Drop of (EN) screen shots to Localization
• Milestone: Preliminary drop of all manuals for novell.com/documentation web site (beta) to rballard

Thu, Oct 01 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 Release

• Milestone: Fully localized build

Fri, Oct 09 openSUSE 11.2 Translation Finish

• Milestone: Last fixes for localization found during testing incorporated.
• Milestone: Drop of Release Notes to Localization

Thu, Oct 15 openSUSE 11.2 RC1 Release

Thu, Oct 29 openSUSE 11.2 RC2 Release

Fri, Nov 06 openSUSE 11.2 Gold Master

• Only showstopper and security bugfixes get integrated.
• Milestone: Final drop of all manuals for novell.com/documentation
• Goldmaster to be uploaded to stage server

Thu, Nov 12 openSUSE 11.2 Release

• openSUSE 11.2 publically available
• All documentation available on novell.com/documentation Web site