Freezes

Hard-freeze, September, 1th 2010

Hard-freeze will start on September, Wednesday 1th 2010. After hard-freeze, no new feature can be added, only bug fixes are accepted. Strings can still be modified until String freeze.

String-freeze, September, 22th 2010

The date for string freeze, at which points it is not allowed to change or add strings, without prior agreement with l10n team.

Code-freeze, October, 15th 2010

The date for code freeze, at which points only compilation fixes and reviewed patches are allowed on trunk, and then on branch 2.3.

Beta

Beta 1

Tagging on September, 8th 2010
Release on September, 15th 2010

Beta 2

Tagging on October, 1st 2010
Release on October, 6th 2010

Beta 3

Tagging on October, 22rd 2010
Release on October, 27th 2010

Beta 4

Tagging on November, 12rd 2010
Release on November, 16th 2010

Release Candidate

RC1

Tagging on December, 3rd 2010
Release on December, 8th 2010

Final Release

2.3.0 should be released about four weeks after RC1 when all blockers are fixed