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Add initial timeline for Kilted Kaiju (backport #4905) #4953

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Expand Up @@ -19,15 +19,17 @@ Kilted Kaiju is primarily supported on the following platforms:

Tier 1 platforms:

* TODO
* Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble): ``amd64`` and ``arm64``
* Windows 10 (Visual Studio 2019): ``amd64``

Tier 2 platforms:

* TODO
* RHEL 9: ``amd64``

Tier 3 platforms:

* TODO
* macOS: ``amd64``
* Debian Bookworm: ``amd64``

For more information about RMW implementations, compiler / interpreter versions, and system dependency versions see `REP 2000 <https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2000.html>`__.

Expand All @@ -45,3 +47,44 @@ Development progress
For progress on the development of Kiltled Kaiju, see `this project board <https://github.com/orgs/ros2/projects/63>`__.

For the broad process followed by Kilted Kaiju, see the :doc:`process description page <Release-Process>`.

Release Timeline
----------------

December, 2024 - Platform decisions
REP 2000 is updated with the target platforms and major dependency versions.

Mon. April 7, 2025 - Alpha + RMW freeze
Preliminary testing and stabilization of ROS Base [1]_ packages, and API and feature freeze for RMW provider packages.

Mon. April 14, 2024 - Freeze
API and feature freeze for ROS Base [1]_ packages in Rolling Ridley.
Only bug fix releases should be made after this point.
New packages can be released independently.

Mon. April 21, 2024 - Branch
Branch from Rolling Ridley.
``rosdistro`` is reopened for Rolling PRs for ROS Base [1]_ packages.
Kilted development shifts from ``ros-rolling-*`` packages to ``ros-kilted-*`` packages.

Mon. April 28, 2024 - Beta
Updated releases of ROS Desktop [2]_ packages available.
Call for general testing.

Thu, May 1, 2024 - Kick off of Tutorial Party
Tutorials hosted at https://github.com/osrf/ros2_test_cases are open for community testing.

Mon. May 12, 2024 - Release Candidate
Release Candidate packages are built.
Updated releases of ROS Desktop [2]_ packages available.

Mon. May 19, 2024 - Distro Freeze
Freeze all Kilted branches on all `ROS 2 desktop packages <https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2001.html#kilted-kaiju-may-2025-november-2026>`__ and ``rosdistro``.
No pull requests for any ``kilted`` branch or targeting ``kilted/distribution.yaml`` in ``rosdistro`` repo will be merged.

Fri. May 23, 2024 - General Availability
Release announcement.
`ROS 2 desktop packages <https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2001.html#kilted-kaiju-may-2025-november-2026>`__ source freeze is lifted and ``rosdistro`` is reopened for Kilted pull requests.

.. [1] The ``ros_base`` variant is described in `REP 2001 (ros-base) <https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2001.html#ros-base>`_.
.. [2] The ``desktop`` variant is described in `REP 2001 (desktop-variants) <https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2001.html#desktop-variants>`_.