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== What we are planning to do ==
 
== What we are planning to do ==
 
=== TODOs ===
 
=== TODOs ===
# <s>[[Lazarus 0.9.30 todo]]</s>
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# [[Lazarus 1.8.0 release notes]]
# <s>[[Lazarus 0.9.28 todo]]</s>
 
# <s>[[Lazarus 0.9.26 todo]]</s>
 
# <s>[[Detailed Lazarus 0.9.24 todo]]</s>
 
# <s>[[Detailed Lazarus 0.9.22 todo]]</s>
 
 
# [[Detailed Lazarus release template todo]]
 
# [[Detailed Lazarus release template todo]]
 
[[Lazarus 0.9.30 branch]]
 
  
 
=== Tasks ===
 
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=== Roadmaps ===
 
=== Roadmaps ===
#[http://bugs.freepascal.org/roadmap_page.php?project_id=1 Current Roadmap (v.1.0.4)] - Roadmap of current Lazarus version (There is a roadmap of Lazarus 1.2.0 too)
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#[http://bugs.freepascal.org/roadmap_page.php?project_id=1 Current Roadmap] - Roadmap of current Lazarus version.
 
#[[Roadmap]] - Current status of some parts of Lazarus (IDE, LCL and others)
 
#[[Roadmap]] - Current status of some parts of Lazarus (IDE, LCL and others)
 
#[[Icon Editor Roadmap]] - Roadmap of Icon Editor Tool
 
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== What we have done ==
 
== What we have done ==
#[[Lazarus 1.4.0 release_notes]] - in progress
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#[[Lazarus 1.2.0 release_notes]]
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{{Navbar Lazarus Release Notes}}
#[[Lazarus 1.0 release notes]]
 
#[[Lazarus 0.9.30 release notes]]
 
#[[Lazarus 0.9.28.2 release notes]]
 
#[[Lazarus 0.9.28 release notes]]
 
#[[Lazarus 0.9.26 release notes]]
 
#[[Lazarus 0.9.24 release notes]]
 
  
 
== What we will not do ==
 
== What we will not do ==
 
#[[Lazarus known issues (things that will never be fixed)]]
 
#[[Lazarus known issues (things that will never be fixed)]]
 
== Old - can this be removed? ==
 
=== After the 1.0 release ===
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
! Target !! Responsible !! Comment
 
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|post 1.0||-||Webbugs to be fixed after the 1.0 release: [http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mantis/view_all_set.php?type=3&source_query_id=90 target post 1.2 bugs]
 
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|post 1.0||Mattias||IDE Feature: Visual Form inheritance
 
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|post 1.0||Mattias||IDE Feature: lazdoc for translations
 
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== Lazarus branches / version numbers ==
 
== Lazarus branches / version numbers ==
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* [[Roadmap]]
 
* [[Roadmap]]
 
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* [[Lazarus release engineering]]
[[Category:Lazarus]]
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* [[WebPageDevelopment|Lazarus website development]]
[[Category:SOPs]]
 
[[Category:Versioning and Revision Control]]
 
[[Category:Development Strategy]]
 

Latest revision as of 07:47, 22 August 2020

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Who are developers

You can find a recent list of Lazarus developers here: Developer pages
You can find history of lazarus developers here: History

Setting the target of a bugfix

When new bugs are entered, we try to give them a target in which version the bug will be fixed. If a bug is set to post 1.2, that means the developers think this bug is not important enough to block a 1.0.x release. Of course you can make sure these post 1.2 issues are fixed in the 1.0.x release by providing patches for these issues.

Some criteria are:

  • Only gtk2, qt and win32 widget sets are stable in 1.0.x. Bugs for other widget set (carbon) are set to post 1.2.
  • Until 1.0 there will be a feature freeze. New features and components generally get a post 1.2 target. Bugs affecting stability have a higher priority than bugs fixing the implementation of a property.
  • Some components are not stable enough and should be disabled for 1.0.x. If they are disabled, then fixing them before 1.2 will not be necessary.

For more details on the various versions of Lazarus, see Version Numbering

What we are planning to do

TODOs

  1. Lazarus 1.8.0 release notes
  2. Detailed Lazarus release template todo

Tasks

  1. IDE Development

Roadmaps

  1. Current Roadmap - Roadmap of current Lazarus version.
  2. Roadmap - Current status of some parts of Lazarus (IDE, LCL and others)
  3. Icon Editor Roadmap - Roadmap of Icon Editor Tool
  4. LCL Documentation Roadmap - Roadmap of LCL Documentation

What we have done


What we will not do

  1. Lazarus known issues (things that will never be fixed)

Lazarus branches / version numbers

This ASCII art schema shows what the Lazarus developers have chosen as branching policy for the Lazarus 1.0 release. It also illustrates the way current development works. Time goes from left to right; the different branches are shown vertically. B indicates a branch point, T a tag (release).



                       0.9.30         0.9.30.2       0.9.30.4
                         |              |              |
fixes_0_9_30:         -- T - 0.9.30.1 - T - 0.9.30.3 - T - 0.9.30.5 -- End of life
                     /  
                    |                        0.99.0(1.0.RC1)      1.0.0        1.0.2         1.0.4         1.0.6         1.0.8         1.0.10         1.0.12
                    |                          |          more RCs  |            |             |             |             |             |              |
fixes_1_0:          |                    ------T - 0.99.1 -< .. >-- T - 1.0.1 -- T -- 1.0.3 -- T -- 1.0.5 -- T -- 1.0.7 -- T -- 1.0.9 -- T -- 1.0.11 -- T -- End of life
                    |                   /
                    |                  /                                              1.2.0         1.2.2          1.2.4
                    |                 /                                                 |             |              |                     
fixes_1_2:          |                |                                            ----- T - 1.2.1 --- T - 1.2.3----- T - 1.2.5 ---- End of life
                    |                |                                           /  
                    |                |                                           | 
trunk: --- 0.9.29 --B-- 0.9.31 ------B- 1.1 -------------------------------------B------- 1.3 ------------ Developing for 1.4 or 2.0 

See also