release schedule proposal

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 02 February 2011, Pierre Stirnweiss wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> >
> If I remember properly Oslo, we actually had planned to have a "always
> stable" master and features developed in branches that would be merged when
> "ready". Bug fixes should be done in master.
>  I think this is actually working pretty good as of now.
> 
> So would it be possible to have on a regular basis (monthly why not), a
> "stable snapshot". I am not sure there should be a link with a future
> "numbered" release (like 3.0 technology preview). That way we could have
> "numbered release" linked to evolution in the software rather than date
> constraint.

I like that idea -- it's indeed better than 3.0 previews.
> 
> We could have the following then:
> - Calligra [last release number] Stable snapshot [YYMM]. These would provide
> both "maintenance releases" and new "finished " merged features.
> - Calligra [new release number]: when we decide we achieved technically a
> new Milestone.



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