Synchronized release schedule for Plasma

[David Edmundson]

>
> As distribution package maintainers, we would like Plasma developers to
> slightly alter the release schedule to align releases with a more
> distribution friendly cycle. You could consider shortening one release
> cycle (and then keep the 6 month schedule) to align releases.
>

We have in the past shuffled things slightly to line up things up with
distros on request, particularly LTS releases. We can certainly explore
that on a one-off basis.

>With this schedule in place, we would also benefit from more beta releases
over a slightly longer period. They would be packaged into the beta and RC
releases of those distributions thus enabling more pre-release testing.

We did have 6 month release cycles in the past.

The rationale for moving at the time was twofold:
 - people rushed in changes towards the feature freeze as otherwise it
would be aages till their changes reached users
 - the more changes we have in a release, the more testing and inevitable
regression fixes we need to do, spreading that out should result in things
being more stable

Initially we did every 3 months (which arguably still aligns) then it
slowly slipped to 4.

My personal impression is that releases have gotten better as a result of
those changes, so I'm hesitant about reverting that decision.

David


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