2.4 Release Plan

[C. Boemann]

On Thursday 13 January 2011 14:51:32 Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Thursday, January 13, 2011 14:15:01 Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 January 2011, Tomas Mecir wrote:
> > > As a disclaimer, I'm not active in Calligra development currently, so
> > > my opinion may not be entirely relevant, but hopefully it will be
> > > useful anyway.
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't it be better to (at least for the initial release) use a
> > > different development scheme with an alpha/beta version being released
> > > every month or so, with no feature freeze in place? It could be more
> > > work to manage it, but by maintaining a relatively constant stream of
> > > pre-releases that each contains actual improvements (not only bug
> > > fixes), you'd keep the general awareness of the project, while at the
> > > same time having enough time to polish the applications to be end-user
> > > ready for the first final version (2.4 or 3.0 or however you're going
> > > to call it).
> > 
> > One of my main concern with that is that I do think that having hard date
> > gives us a focus. I think "a release when we feel we are ready" tends to
> > make us go in many directions, because anyway we have time to fix things.
> > While if you have a date, you have to focus on selecting what you feel is
> > important to finish and fix before that date.
> 
> That is probably correct.  How could we make it so that we can keep focus
> while still make sure that we get the necessary features and bugfixes in?
by having a required-items-list rather than a date, and biweekly evaluations 
if we should remove some. It should be emphasized that we do not want to go on 
forever and that the list should be what is needed in order to be user ready. 
The required-items-list should not be confused with our feature list, which we 
will happily release even when not fulfilled.

So some apps like Krita may not have anything, and apps that don't want to be 
called feature ready in 2.4 could also omit filling out this required-items-
list.

I still think Words, Tables and Stage needs to be user ready before we 
release. And most of what is required here is user interface. but the exact 
list is up to the app to define.

best regards
Casper Boemann