[dtp-pmc] Rough Draft of 1.6.2 Schedule and Rampdown Plan

[brian.fitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi all...

A couple of questions popped up this
morning regarding the DTP 1.6.2 schedule, now that we're at the end of
1.6.1.

I've put together a very rough wiki
page with a schedule of dates (no rampdown policy yet). You can see it
here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/DTP_1.6.2_Schedule_and_Rampdown_Policy

Would you please take a look at the
dates and see if it makes sense date-wise? I'm concerned about the Christmas
and New Years holidays and how most folks tend to take time off at the
end of the year. The January 6 date seems too close to New Years' for me,
but if we push it back to December, we run into Christmas. I'm open to
suggestions. :)

I believe we're going to continue using
the HEAD stream as the main development stream until we branch. And I'm
suspecting that we branch the 1.6 (i.e. 1.6.2) stream off the HEAD when
we're ready for Galileo and continue to do development in HEAD for Galileo.


We postponed a discussion of when the branch will occur until Linda returns
from vacation. 

In the meantime, I think if Xiaoying
is ok with it we can start doing 1.6.2 nightly builds as of Thursday (1.6.1
officially is released today, Wednesday September 24). 

--Fitz

Brian Fitzpatrick
Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
Eclipse Data Tools Platform Connectivity Team Lead
Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.