release schedule proposal

[C. Boemann]

On Wednesday 02 February 2011 10:34:30 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Pierre
I like this very much, both now and as the future way of releasing.

i would assume our first release would then be:

Calligra Suite 2.3 Stable snapshot 201103


Casper