Elisa, kdereview and a Release Schedule

[Alexander Stippich]

Hello,

congrats to everyone on being accepted!

I have zero experience with doing releases, so I will just follow your lead.
Doing 4 releases per year sounds reasonable in my opinion. And backporting 
fixes to one branch should also be doable.

For a list of features/blockers for a first release, I'd like to merge the 
controls2 branch and add remaining patches for HiDPI.
Also, I think it is a good idea to finish the transition of some classes (e.g. 
manageAudioPlayer) from Qml to C++ and I think you wanted to make some more 
functions in the models non-blocking (similar to the allalbumsmodel). This way 
we should get a lot of testing for the underlying stuff which is then the base 
going forward.

And we should definitely add the icon for the first release.

Somewhat off-topic, I have some smaller changes still awaiting review :)
https://phabricator.kde.org/D10643
https://phabricator.kde.org/D10488

Best regards,
Alex

On Dienstag, 27. Februar 2018 22:15:46 CET Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Given that Elisa is now officially a KDE project, we should aim to release a
> first stable release and also agree on a release rhythm.
> 
> I am a bit short on time today but do you have suggestions or ideas for the
> schedule of the first release ?
> 
> We should also list as soon as possible a list of release blocking points.
> For example, I would like to get the new icon before the release.
> 
> I would like to have a release rhythm of 3 months with a feature freeze
> after one and half month and with one and half months of bugfix support.
> That would give something like that:
> 
> T0 + 1.5 months: we create 0.1 branch where only bug fix and polishing is
> allowed. New features land in master branch.
> T0 + 3 months we release 0.1
> T0 + 4.5 months we close the 0.1 branch and we no longer push bug fix to it
> and at the same time, we create 0.2 branch where we have a feature freeze.
> 
> We would have only two parallel branches and that may already be too much
> given the size of the team.
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> --
> Matthieu Gallien