[tor-dev] Tenative schedule for Tor 0.2.4 [Or, why I might reject your patches in November->March]

[Paul Syverson]

Minor typo noted.
-Paul

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 12:09:30PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> Last year, I announced a tenative schedule for 0.2.3.x.  We didn't
> stick to it, and things have gone a little pear-shaped with getting
> 0.2.3.x stabilized, but I think with a few tweaks we can use something
> similar to get a good schedule out for 0.2.4.x.
> 
> My goals remain about what they were before: get release out faster by
> getting better at saying "no" to features after a release window.  My
> target is March or April 2013.
> 
> To that end:
> 
> October 10, 2012: Big feature proposal checkpoint.  Any large
> complicated feature which requires a design proposal must have its
> first design proposal draft by this date.
> 
> November 10, 2012: Big feature checkpoint.  If I don't know about a
> large feature by this date, it might have to wait.
> November 10, 2012: Big feature proposal freeze. Any small feature

s/small/big/

> which requires a design proposal must have its design proposal
> finished by this date.
> 
> December 10, 2012: Big feature merge freeze. No big features will be
> merged after this date.
> December 10, 2012: Small feature proposal freeze. Any small feature
> which requires a design proposal must have its design proposal
> finished by this date.
> 
> January 10, 2013: Feature merge freeze. No features after this date. I mean it.
> 
> Feb 20, 2013: Buggy feature backout date. Any feature which seems
> intractably buggy by this date may be disabled, deprecated, or removed
> until the next release.
> 
> On the meaning of "feature": I'm probably going to argue that some
> things that you think are bugfixes are features.  I'm probably going
> to argue that your security bugfix is actually a security feature.
> I'm probably even going to argue that most non-regression bugfixes are
> features.  Let's try to get a release out *early* in 2013 this time,
> come heck or high water.
> 
> (This is all subject to change, but let's not push it.)
> 
> [0] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2011-July/002851.html
> 
> happy hacking,
> -- 
> Nick
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