Dapper Final Release [Archive]

bonzodog

March 15th, 2006, 06:55 PM

I have gone to the logs of the TB meeting today, and it looks like Dapper final release is 1st June, there are to be no more added features apart from (possibly) WPA support, and it will be all bug-fixing from now on, as there is a huge backlog of bugs to fix and they want to see how many of them they can iron out, and they have to fit in debconf in May on top of this. Debconf is a debian developers conference, and quite a few of the Ubuntu developers are also Debian Developers.

mstlyevil

March 15th, 2006, 06:57 PM

I was kind of expecting this since the delay has popular support.

jdodson

March 15th, 2006, 06:59 PM

rock on dapper, this is great news for everyone.

if people want "teh bleeding edge" upgrade now, i have it dual booted at home and it already shines! however, this release should be super-stable, and it looks like it will be.

kleeman

March 15th, 2006, 07:30 PM

2.5 months of bug fixing eh? The devs are going to be crawling up the wall at the end of that. Good for us endusers though. I have dapper installed and it is fairly stable now. The xgl stuff is a real crowd puller and takes all of two minutes to install

jason.b.c

March 15th, 2006, 07:31 PM

:o Will Dapper be available from the www.shipit.ubuntu.com site as a live/install cd set like breezy was?:) ;)

sal

March 15th, 2006, 07:35 PM

i think this was a good thing for them to do.
Dapper is being looked at as "The Prime Time" release.
I just hope, for my sanity, that they do add out of the
box WPA/WPA2 support with a with a GUI in both Ubuntu and Kubuntu.
I am still pulling my hair out trying to configure wpa in kubuntu.

kadymae

March 15th, 2006, 07:42 PM

and it looks like Dapper final release is 1st June

That's my birthday!

I quite like the idea of getting "the Godiva of Linux" for my birthday. :)

Gijith

March 15th, 2006, 08:40 PM

I missed out on all this.
Will later releases be delayed because of this?

John.Michael.Kane

March 15th, 2006, 08:43 PM

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseSchedule/Slewed

jam'ez

March 15th, 2006, 08:59 PM

CANT WAIT!!!! -all there is to be said hehe. who needs vista when you have dapper before it lol

aamukahvi

March 15th, 2006, 09:06 PM

CANT WAIT!!!! -all there is to be said hehe. who needs vista when you have dapper before it lol
The real kicker is Dapper+1 if they indeed push it out as 6.10 :p

Iandefor

March 15th, 2006, 09:28 PM

All right! It looks like it'll be well-used time. I'm also appreciative for the time- right now, I'm maintaining a Dapper-only project, and this extension should actually give me the ability to polish up the software even more before the official release of Dapper.

beercz

March 15th, 2006, 09:31 PM

June 1st eh?

Just in time for the World Cup :mrgreen:

Jucato

March 15th, 2006, 10:27 PM

So we'll be expecting a Flight-6 by mid-April? (If that's what the "beta release" means)

Quick question: what is dapper+1, +2, etc? :D

mstlyevil

March 15th, 2006, 10:31 PM

So we'll be expecting a Flight-6 by mid-April? (If that's what the "beta release" means)

Quick question: what is dapper+1, +2, etc? :D

The development release after dappers release since no name has been announced yet.

mips

March 16th, 2006, 03:26 AM

Does this mean it gets version# 6.06 ?

poofyhairguy

March 16th, 2006, 04:34 AM

I wonder if this will push back the next release as well. That was my only concern from the start.

curuxz

March 16th, 2006, 04:43 AM

Personaly I think this was bound to happen sooner or later, working to fixed deadlines before you already start a project is going to end in delays sooner or later and while I like the 6 month cycle I think it should be expanded to 8 or 9 If they are going to get good quality land mark releases out without this happening.

Im all for a delay if it means a better dap but im certain it will have a knock on effect unless you expect them to make the whole of +1 in 3 and a half months.

ssam

March 16th, 2006, 08:17 AM

Does this mean it gets version# 6.06 ?

yes, though it was also proposed to change it to 6-06 so people dont get confused and think its a decimal place.

dapper will be a very good release.

beercz

March 16th, 2006, 08:19 AM

yes, though it was also proposed to change it to 6-06 so people dont get confused and think its a decimal place.

dapper will be a very good release.

I find Dapper is already a very good release :-)

jc87

March 16th, 2006, 09:27 AM

Nice , that way we will be able to show to our friends a Super Hiper Mega Stable release of Ubuntu:-D , less bugs = more satisfied users.

Bandit

March 16th, 2006, 10:20 AM

yes, though it was also proposed to change it to 6-06 so people dont get confused and think its a decimal place.

dapper will be a very good release.
We should name it something like J6 and dapper+1 should be called D6 if it gets pushed back as well to Dec.
J6 and D6 sound kewl like were part of a secret british agency like James Bond..
Now were are my women?? :cool:

-Bandits wife is slapping him upside the head - "SNAP OUT OF IT..."

bonzodog

March 16th, 2006, 10:31 AM

In addendum, they intend to stick to the original release schedule for dapper +1, Oct 06, of which a favourite Code Name at the moment is Edgy Elephant (3 of the CC said they liked it). Dapper +1 therefore is likely to be an 'edgy' release, possibly quite unstable as it will have early almost untested versions of certain bits of software in it, and people will be warned that it will be another 'warty', with things requiring tweaking to get working etc. Dapper +1 will mark the start of a new development cycle, so in reality we are looking at one rock solid release every 2 years.Dapper +4 will be the next major stable release.

mstlyevil

March 16th, 2006, 10:34 AM

We should name it something like J6 and dapper+1 should be called D6 if it gets pushed back as well to Dec.
J6 and D6 sound kewl like were part of a secret british agency like James Bond..
Now were are my women?? :cool:

-Bandits wife is slapping him upside the head - "SNAP OUT OF IT..."

Will Felicity Shagwell or Ivana Humpalot work for you? :mrgreen:

Bandit

March 16th, 2006, 11:01 AM

Will Felicity Shagwell or Ivana Humpalot work for you? :mrgreen:
LOL.. We could talk them into naming the releases after Bond girls, but I think they are pretty much stuck on the current naiming system :-D
Plus someone might get offended with a release named "Pussygalore." \\:D/
I just hope I can download RC1 before I move and loose my highspeed iNet for a few weeks..

mstlyevil

March 16th, 2006, 11:08 AM

I would go for the Bond girls naming convention.

Brunellus

March 16th, 2006, 11:15 AM

I would go for the Bond girls naming convention.
copyright-encumbered, though, sadly.

mstlyevil

March 16th, 2006, 11:17 AM

aamukahvi

March 16th, 2006, 11:37 AM

Dapper +1 therefore is likely to be an 'edgy' release, possibly quite unstable as it will have early almost untested versions of certain bits of software in it
If it has KDE4, AIGLX/XGL + Compiz and so on, I don't care how often it crashes :mrgreen: I'll just use Dapper for anything critical.

Gijith

March 16th, 2006, 01:19 PM

Master Shake

March 16th, 2006, 01:27 PM

I would go for the Bond girls naming convention.

Oh man...

I'm waiting for releases Plenty O'Toole and P***y Galore

\\:D/ \\:D/ :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

equal

March 16th, 2006, 02:08 PM

Does this mean it gets version# 6.06 ?

Holy crap! I could never figure out with it was 5.04, 5.10, etc.

Haha wow I feel dumb now!

aamukahvi

March 16th, 2006, 03:05 PM

Is there any sort of release date for kde 4? It sounds so awesome, but I've heard they haven't even really gotten to work on it yet. Doubt it will be ready for Dapper's successor. Unless that is delayed too.
Here's a rough roadmap (http://plasma.kde.org/cms/1033). There's a lot to do and probably it won't make D++ but one can always hope :p