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#1 Updated by intrigeri 2014-05-10 01:39:11

> Those links are really specific to the release-manager

I beg to disagree with your analysis of who the “Release schedule” link is useful to. Other people than the RM need this information too:

• contributors who need to get their stuff ready and merged in time before a freeze: they need to know what the release cycle generally is, especially when next release’s schedule has not been posted yet, or next release is a point-release and their work is targeted at the next major release
• translators who need to know when they likely will need to put time into translation during the next few release cycles
• upstreams who are kind enough to take our release cycle into account

So, I think the link to the release schedule needs to stay somewhere on the Contribute page.

OTOH:

• I agree that the link to the release process could be moved to the RM doc.
• If we do that, indeed maybe it’s not worth keeping a dedicated section for the release cycle, and so we probably agree on the general idea :)

#3 Updated by sajolida 2014-05-11 03:30:35

> I beg to disagree with your analysis of who the “Release schedule” link is useful to. Other people than the RM need this information too:

I agree with intrigeri.

> * contributors who need to get their stuff ready and merged in time before a freeze: they need to know what the release cycle generally is, especially when next release’s schedule has not been posted yet, or next release is a point-release and their work is targeted at the next major release
> * translators who need to know when they likely will need to put time into translation during the next few release cycles
> * upstreams who are kind enough to take our release cycle into account

Let’s add: tester would might want to participate in the manual test suite.

> So, I think the link to the release schedule needs to stay somewhere on the Contribute page.
>
> OTOH:
>
> * I agree that the link to the release process could be moved to the RM doc.
> * If we do that, indeed maybe it’s not worth keeping a dedicated section for the release cycle, and so we probably agree on the general idea :)

I think this effort should take place in a deeper restructuring of all
those links, and that’s Bug #7047.