[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 ?

[Jim H. <jh...@fr...>]

It's been over a year since our 1.0 (Sep 2006) release, and many of
our packages have been updated since then. I'd like to see us create a
"1.1" release sometime soonish. Blair is interested in rolling our 1.1
distro, but I think he'd like some help. If there's anyone our there
who'd be willing to assist, please let us know.

We should set some timelines for this, if we're all going to make it
work. A "soft" and "hard' freeze worked well for the 1.0 release ...
so let's us that again.

A number of us have holidays coming up, and I don't expect to see much
happening until they are over. So let's set the target dates like so:

SOFT FREEZE begins 30 Jan 2008. In the soft freeze, the software list
is considered frozen (no new packages accepted) but any bug fixes or
improvements to existing packages will be fine.

HARD FREEZE begins 1 Mar 2008. That means that we need to finalize the
distro, so only *high-impact* bug fixes to packages will make it into
FreeDOS 1.1. Minor bug fixes or user interfaces updates to existing
packages will not be included in FreeDOS 1.1.

Our target for release should be around 15 Apr 2008. That gives us
enough time to make test releases of FreeDOS 1.1 (based on hard
freeze) before the final release.



-jh