{"id":2345,"date":"2013-07-22T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T09:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:35:11","slug":"mageia-4-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2013\/07\/22\/mageia-4-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Mageia 4 already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/06\/11\/cauldron-is-boiling-again-never-2-without-3\/kplato\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1723\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/06\/11\/cauldron-is-boiling-again-never-2-without-3\/kplato\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kplato.png\" data-orig-size=\"256,256\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Planning and specifications\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Oxygen icon&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kplato.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kplato.png\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1723\" alt=\"Planning and specifications\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kplato.png\" width=\"154\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The time has come again. After some time working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia3_Postmortem\">post-mortem for Mageia 3 release<\/a>, the time has arrived for a new schedule for the next release, Mageia 4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_4_Development#Development_Planning\">Here it is<\/a>! We included some extra important dates from the development process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alpha 1<\/strong>: 2013\/08\/08<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alpha 2<\/strong>: 2013\/09\/06<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unmaintained packages adoption campaign:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/09\/13<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alpha 3:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/10\/02<\/li>\n<li><strong>Version freeze:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/10\/15<\/li>\n<li><strong>New strings freeze:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/10\/15<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distro rebuild:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/10\/16<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beta 1:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/10\/31<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artwork freeze:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/11\/15<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beta 2:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/11\/28<\/li>\n<li><strong>Translations freeze:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/12\/14<\/li>\n<li><strong>Release freeze:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/12\/14<\/li>\n<li><strong>RC:<\/strong>\u00a02013\/12\/17<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internal release:<\/strong>\u00a02014\/01\/24<\/li>\n<li><strong>Final release:<\/strong>\u00a02014\/02\/01<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After some weeks of (interesting) discussions, we went though the features process to define the official list for Mageia 4. The choice was based on the<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Features_policy\"> existing policy<\/a>. \u00a0As usual, we received a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Category:ProposedFeatureMageia4\">lot of proposals<\/a>. Here are the<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/FeatureMageia4_Review\"> successful ones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>include some more desktop choices,<\/li>\n<li>refresh some of our drakx tools,<\/li>\n<li>improve our distribution for newcomers,<\/li>\n<li>a lot of system cleaning,<\/li>\n<li>some more tools to help packagers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and many others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now the game has started. Let&#8217;s see all of you for the first alpha release!<\/p>\n<p>Now is a great time to become more involved, come along and help to make Mageia. Mageia is made by people just like you. There are many ways to get involved, not all of which are technical. For a list of teams you can join, see this <a title=\"List of teams\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Contributing\">wiki page<\/a>. Joining is easy, just subscribe to the relevant mailing list and send an email to introduce yourself, saying you&#8217;d like to get involved. You will be made very welcome and help and mentoring is always given where required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come again. After some time working on the post-mortem for Mageia 3 release, the time has arrived for a new schedule for the next release, Mageia 4. Here it is! We included some extra important dates from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2013\/07\/22\/mageia-4-already\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-BP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}