The releases after 2.0 and string changes..

[Dan Meltzer]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Dan Meltzer
> <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems clear to me that we have a lot of string tweaking to do after
> 2.0.
> > I don't think it's fair however to expect translators to keep up with a
> 1-2
> > week release cycle for our first point releases.  I'm not exactly sure
> the
> > best way we can handle this..
> >
> > I'm wondering if we should immediately branch 2.0, keep it string frozen,
> > and just do bug fixes in it while starting 2.1 development in trunk and
> > planning a 2-3 month development cycle for it (short enough so that the
> > missing strings are not missing forever, long enough to still allow for
> > features).  I think this would be acceptable as many of the 2.1 features
> we
> > have talked about are already implemented and sitting in developers git
> > branches, allowing a whole bunch of changes to land post 2.0.  I think
> this
> > would also allow us to keep 2.0.x fairly stable (as we all want to get
> our
> > new features in after 2.0 is released, but I don't know if it makes sense
> to
> > put all these features in 2.0.x)
> >
> > The downside to this is that we probably will stop using 2.0.* on a
> > day-to-day basis, and would have to have two checkouts in order to make
> > bugfixes (though you can set up git to have branches that point to
> different
> > places in svn, which would reduce the amount of different checkouting.)
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> The plan that I, Nikolaj, and a few others had discussed on IRC was to
> keep 2.0 as trunk for about 3 weeks after release, so that we can all
> focus entirely on bug fixing. If we branch immediately, we'd be forced
> to backport, and that never works out very well in reality.
>
> We would then do a 2.0.1 and maybe 2.0.2 release from trunk, and after
> that branch.


That doesn't really answer how we will handle string changes :)

Do we want to keep A2 frozen for strings until we branch it? or are we just
going to hope the translators can keep up

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