next release and release pace in general

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Well, I'm kinda torn about this... I do want to get the latest features and fixes in people's hands as soon as possible. It's rather weird that the most intense users of Krita build master on a daily basis just to get that -- releasing more often might save them time (though it would cost us testers). But users really deserve the stuff we do as quickly as possible: that's why we work on those things! It is already getting old that I have to explain to people that the smoothed painting is done, but won't be in the 2.6 release, but 2.7...

For Windows, once I got that setup working again, I'll probably just publish regular git master builds. Those are more stable than any release anyway, or should be!

On the other hand, an open source project has only one moment when it can create noise, buzz and publicity, and that's on a release. I'm personally not capable of doing that properly every four months -- that's why I didn't do much for the 2.5 release. Although that had other reasons, too -- family resons. For 2.6 I'm working really hard on another splash. I think I spend about 40 hours on krita release announcements and publicity, if I spend time on it at all.

So, I'm torn. I cannot manage to create a buzz around krita every four months, and Krita still needs lots of buzz. I also cannot square it with my conscience to keep fixes and features from users for longer than strictly necessary.

I haven't got a solution...

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Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl