On Thursday 03 of January 2013 02:47:34 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> All,
>
> I am now officially back from my holiday vacation away from TDE.
>
> I would like to get R14.0.0 squared away and out the door in the next few
> months if possible; thoughts on the current status of the nightly builds
> are welcome.  I know quite a few bugs remain, however many critical bugs
> have been repaired and I don't want to hold those fixes (which cannot be
> ported to the 3.5.13.x series) back much longer.
>

Definitely - it would be good to have R14 of the door as soon as possible. But 
just as surely we must have serious problems resolved before a new version is 
released.


> How does a tentative release date of April 15, 2013 sound?  This means
> that the remaining blocker bugs need to be resolved by February 2013 in
> order to get the R14 release candidate into the hands of our QA team with
> sufficient time for them to find and resolve quality problems before
> release.  A tentative final source release date would be March 15; this
> would allow 2 weeks for the binary build maintainers to update their
> packages before release, and a week or two for the mirrors to sync with
> the new packages.
>

Note the dates that are in the draft R14.0.0 Road Map in Etherpad - 
http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/39 - there is little similarity 
with your proposal. Just a little less optimistic.


> For me the biggest blocker bug remaining is the XDG icon naming issue
> (http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1313), as this causes a
> very bad (inconsistent) user experience with most non-TDE software
> packages.  I will be working hard to resolve that issue; if each developer
> here could find a large blocker bug and work on fixing it over the next
> few weeks that would be great!
>
> Tim
>

Slavek