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Development Planning

Stage	Expected date	Public	Released on	Offset
Alpha 1	2012 Sep. 04th	developers, packagers	2012 Sep. 07th	+ 3 days
Alpha 2	2012 Oct. 04th	developers, packagers	2012 Oct. 14th	+ 10 days
Alpha 3	2012 Nov. 12th	developers, packagers	2012 Nov. 15th	+ 3 days
Beta 1	2012 Dec. 12th	developers, packagers	2012 Dec. 19th	+ 7 days
Versions freeze	2013 Jan. 9th		2013 Jan. 9th	None
Development String freeze	2013 Jan. 9th		2013 Jan. 9th	none
Artwork freeze	2013 Jan. 14th
i18n freeze	2013 Jan. 14th
Beta 2	~~2013 Jan. 11th~~ 2013 Jan. 18th	developers, packagers, reviewers	2013 Jan. 25th	+7 days
Beta 3	~~2013 Feb. 12th~~ ~~2013 Feb. 19th~~ 2013 Mar 5th	developers, packagers, reviewers	2013 Mar 10th	+5 days
Beta 4	2013 Mar 28th (Added between beta3 and rc by council decision)	developers, packagers, reviewers	2013 Mar 31th	+3 days
Releases freeze	~~2013 Feb. 28th~~ 2013 Apr. 7th
Release Candidate	~~2013 Mar 5th~~ ~~2013 Mar 12th~~ 2013 Apr 19th	developers, packagers, reviewers	2013 Apr 21th	+2 days
Final Release	~~2013 Mar 20th~~ ~~2013 Apr 2nd~~ ~~2013 May 3rd~~ 2013 May 18th	anyone	2013 May 19th	+1 day
mageia 3 virtual machine	~~2013 May 2nd~~ 2013 Jun. 4th	anyone

until 2012-06-15: proposals submission for Mageia 3 specifications (features) following the features policy.
2012-06-25: publication of preliminary list of accepted features
2012-06-25 to 2012-07-04: discussions about features on mailing lists and during IRC meeting
2012-07-05: publication and communication on the final list of Mageia 3 specifications