My pitch on KDE16

[Jos Poortvliet]

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Subject: Re: My pitch on KDE16
Date: Tuesday 28 December 2010, 16:36:34
From: psychic blue <pb at psychicblue.de>
To: jospoortvliet at gmail.com

On Tuesday 28 December 2010 at 14:51:23 you wrote:
> Awesome, Rainer, thanks for your submission. And I happen to like the note
> on openSUSE ;-)
 
> If I can summarize your vision, you'd like to introduce a split of a super-
> stable KDE release and a more unstable one. Git would probably help a lot
> there. Then you'd say we need an infrastructure to manage it easily, both
> when it comes to feature tracking and to the moving of features to the
> stable branch?

Yes, that's the core of it.

I think the creation of a system for tracking the maturity of features and the 
scope of releases is a good basis for a future "release management".  That 
will help a lot in creating/maintaining a streamlined "super-stable" KDE 
branch.

Of course the internal KDE community processes must be adapted to support and 
take advantage of this system. 

I am not really familiar with your current internal organization, so my 
contribution is more of a general nature. If it turns out, that people are 
interested in the idea, I'd be happy to invest more time.

A powerful revision control system for sure helps on the side of source code 
configuration management.

The two kde versions would both be beneficial to KDE as a whole. The "pioneer" 
branch would inject new matured features and drive innovation, the "stable" 
branch would attract new users and bring more professional applications to 
kde.

KDE is a raw diamond, let's use its potential and flexibility to increase its 
popularity.

-- 
"Everything is beginning to coalesce into some kind of organometallic-human-
machine-cultural-spiritual-material interphasing amoeboid." - T. McKenna

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