release schedule proposal

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 2 February 2011 10:12, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 09:35:00 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With the removal of kexi, krita and kplato from the koffice.org website,
>> I'm reluctant to continue having krita released as part of KOffice 2.3.x.
>> In fact, even though I'm fairly sure that giving up maintainance of
>> KOffice 2.3 is exactly that TZ wanted to achieve, I don't think we should
>> put any effort in KOffice 2.3.x at all any more. And I'm past caring about
>> all that.
>
> Well, I'm not.  I may be after the arbitration, but right now I still want to
> keep up the 2.3 work. I feel we made a commitment to that when we released
> 2.3.0.
>
>> However, I do want regular releases of Krita and Calligra going out.
>> Personally, I want Krita users to get access to all the goodness, in a
>> relatively timely way, but also with relatively stable software. And I
>> don't want to wait until April!
>>
>> What I propose is this:
>>
>> * since it's clear that the calligra developers are really grokking git
>> now, mostly working in branches, getting the branches reviewed before
>> committing to master, master is plenty stable [1].
>>
>> * so, let's release Calligra master every month, called something like
>> Calligra 3.0 Stable Preview 1..n, containing all apps, including flow and
>> words [2].
>
> There is no [2].  :-)
>
> 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.
>
> Especially interesting is if Calligra 3.0 previews will be able to exist in
> parallel with KOffice 2.3.  I fear there are still some collisions with names
> of binaries and especially library and plugin names.

Yes, Krita and Kexi and their internal libs and files to just name
these areas...
Just to repeat opinion from the past discussions: That's a permanent
technical clash for Kexi in particular, since I see no reason for
executing 'mv kexi koffice_kexi' (not possible for a minor release
2.3.x?) and I see no reason for 'mv kexi calligra_kexi' when Kexi is
not going to be available outside of calligra past koffice 2.3 series.

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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 Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org)
 KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)