Dates Phase/Deadline Everyone's Tasks Release Team Tasks Maintainer Tasks

2015-03-01 - sometime in 2015 Planning Phase Elect the release team, discuss dependencies Discuss and plan porting

sometime in 2015 Extended Planning Phase May request dependency changes

sometime in 2016 Dependency Freeze Update dependency info, inform community about the decisions made (dependencies, unguaranteed feature preview)

until sometime in 2018 Development Phase Support Xfce Supervise development, remind people of deadlines Porting to Gtk+ 3 and gdbus (no new features).

currently ongoing Release Phase Wait patiently Perform releases, remind people of deadlines Perform releases of own components if desired

2019-05-19 Xfce 4.14pre1 (Soft String Freeze) Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.14pre1 Make sure the latest development release is in good shape and uploaded. Try to avoid making string changes since this release will most likely skip pre3!

2019-06-30 Xfce 4.14pre2 (String + Code Freeze) Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4.14pre2 Make sure that strings in the latest development release or in master are good

2019-07-28 Xfce 4.14pre3 (Final Freeze) This is an optional release (release team decides whether we need or skip it in favor of the final release)