Roadmap/11.1

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Revision as of 20:29, 15 August 2008

openSUSE 11.1 is the next community release that incorporates new features from both the community and internal development. It will be done for the x86, x86-64 and ppc platforms.

IMPORTANT: WORK IN PROGRESS; DO NOT PUBLISH

Major areas of interest:

• GNOME 2.24
• KDE: KDE 4.1.1 (optionally also KDE 3.5.10)
• OpenOffice.org 3.0
• Continued improvement in the software update stack
• Linux kernel 2.6.27 (or later)

The most important dates of the currently planned schedule are:
* Thu, Jul 24: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1
* Thu, Aug 21: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2
* Thu, Sep 04: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha3
* Thu, Sep 18: openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 - snapshot release
* Thu, Oct 02: openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 - snapshot release
* Thu, Oct 16: openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 - snapshot release
* Thu, Oct 30: openSUSE 11.1 Beta4 - snapshot release
* Thu, Nov 13: openSUSE 11.1 RC1 - snapshot release
* Thu, Nov 27: openSUSE 11.1 RC2 - snapshot release
* Thu, Dec 4: openSUSE 11.1 GM - final release (internal)
* Thu, Dec 18: openSUSE 11.1 public release

Thu, Jul 24 openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 release

• Milestone: snapshot release without agenda

Thu, Aug 21 openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2 release

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

Thu, Sep 04 openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 3 release

• Milestone: Toolchain is feature frozen

Fri, Sep, 5 Component freeze for beta1, crypto freeze

• Milestone: We have settled for a KDE branch to go for
• Milestone: Feature and version freeze for the base system
• Milestone: Kernel and install works on most targeted machines.
• Milestone: Packages containing cryptographic routines are frozen (ECR)
• Preliminary Authoring Deadline for localized doc files (ADL loc prelim)

Thu, Sep 11 First translation round

• Milestone: All packages submitted latest POT file into SVN

Thu, Sep 18 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 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 Beta1+)
• Milestone: First localized build
• Milestone: Complete string freeze
• 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
• Milestone: all new desktop applications, incl. KDE 4 apps, to ship with the product are integrated

Thu, Sep 18 Main translation round

• Milestone: All packages submitted latest POT file into SVN
• 12:00 CEST: Developers to check in the POTs for the 2nd cycle of software translation

Thu, Sep 25 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1+ release

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

Thu, Oct 02 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 release

• Milestone: Fully 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 16 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 release

Thu, Oct 30 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 release

Thu, Nov 13 openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 release

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

Thu, Nov 27 openSUSE 11.1 RC 2 release

Thu, Dec 4 openSUSE 11.1 GM release (internal)

• Only showstopper and security bugfixes get integrated.
• Milestone: Final drop of all manuals for novell.com/documentation

Thu, Dec 18 openSUSE 11.1 public release

• Release on the ftp server
• all documentation available on novell.com/documentation Web site