release schedule proposal

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 02 February 2011, Inge Wallin wrote:
 
> Do you plan to make real, i.e. not previews, of Krita in the mean time? The 
> reason I ask is that I wonder which Linux distros are going to package the 
> previews and how.

I think that (after a bit of cleanup), Calligra master contains a stable version of Krita that is a big improvement over KOffice 2.3. So I would want to communicate that to users. I think the same holds for the other apps -- with 37 feature branches, we've clearly shown that we've grasped the git way of working.
 
> Especially interesting is if Calligra 3.0 previews will be able to exist in 
> parallel with KOffice 2.3.  

No, KOffice and Calligra are not and will not be co-installable.

> I fear there are still some collisions with names 
> of binaries and especially library and plugin names. The same question is of 
> course valid for a stable Calligra 3.0 release but when we have a stable 
> release it's much less likely that the user would want both.

So I would want to market this as "work in progress, but stable and cool -- if you are a current KOffice 2.3 user, you want to give this a try."  Maybe not call the preview -- I am sure we can come up with something catchy.

> You may argue that the same could be true for the previews since they are 
> supposed to be stable, but as a user I would still have an uneasy feeling.

I'm not sure there are many users of KOffice 2.3, but those that we have, they are into experimental stuff anyway. And we've got a chance to give them something better already.

> Btw, does this mean that you suggest that we skip the intermediate step of 
> releasing Calligra 2.4?

Yes. 3.0 is a much cooler version number :-). 

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org