Calligra/Schedules

During the development of Calligra, the team sets goals in features, and dates for upcoming releases. This help to know when to concentrate on features, bug fixing, cleaning, brainstorming, this also allow for an external person to know what to expect and when.

All information and plans must be taken with caution and are subject to changes without notices, decisions are taken on the [email protected] mailing list.

Important information

• The meaning of freezes
• All about the release blockers
• How to write meaningful commit messages for the changelog
• Git tags are used to mark releases in the code (alpha, beta, rc, stable). To display tags, type git show-ref --tags or in gitk use File→List references.

Stages: Planned Development (alpha, beta) Development (RC) Stable

Version	Features	Releases	Quality Control
Calligra 3.0	Feature Plan	Release Plan	Quality Control
Calligra 2.7	Feature Plan	Release Plan	Quality Control
Calligra 2.6	Feature Plan	Release Plan	Quality Control	Calligra 2.5	Feature Plan (see also old page)	Release Plan	Quality Control
Calligra 2.4	Feature Plan	Release Plan	Quality Control
KOffice 2.3	Feature Plan	Release Plan	Quality Control
KOffice 2.2	Feature Plan	Release Plan
KOffice 2.1	Feature Plan	Release Plan
KOffice 2.0	Feature Plan	Release Plan	Applications Status

Release Checklist

Note

This is work in progress. You can contribute to this page or request updates.

• Update version info in the source code:
  • bump version info to N for libs in calligra/CMakeLists.txt (10 for 2.5, 11 for 2.6...)
    set(GENERIC_CALLIGRA_LIB_VERSION "N.0.0")
    set(GENERIC_CALLIGRA_LIB_SOVERSION "N")
  • update version info in calligra/libs/main/calligraversion.h:
    • #define CALLIGRA_VERSION_STRING "x.y Pre-Alpha|Alpha|Beta|RC"
      #define CALLIGRA_VERSION_MAJOR x
      #define CALLIGRA_STABLE_VERSION_MINOR y
      #define CALLIGRA_VERSION_RELEASE 89 (Pre-Alpha)|90 (Alpha)|91 (Beta)|92 (RC)
      #define CALLIGRA_ALPHA 0|1
      #define CALLIGRA_BETA 0|1
      #define CALLIGRA_RC 0|1
      #define CALLIGRA_STABLE 0|1
      
• Collect changelog items
• Collect screenshots
  • Major release: Create tour
  • Update version on http://userbase.kde.org/Calligra/Download
  • Update info on http://userbase.kde.org/Calligra/Download
  • Update stable release version at community.kde.org
  • Major release: Update stable major version at community.kde.org
  • Major release: Update unstable major version at community.kde.org
• Write announcement for calligra.org
• Kexi
  • Update kexi-project.org
    • Add link to the Calligra announcement
    • Update Kexi version on the front page
  • Optional: Publish news on http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=220
  • Publish news on http://identi.ca/kexi
  • Major release: Publish news on http://www.linkedin.com
• Wikipedia
  • Update version