[k3b] What happens after 2.0

[Sebastian Trüg]

On 03/19/2010 10:26 PM, Markus wrote:
> Am Freitag 19 März 2010 21:29:42 schrieb Michał Małek:
> 
>> Agreed. I even don't mind a 6-month release cycle, it's long enough for
>> current development speed (which is rather slow).
> 
> I was thinking... Now with the "Plasma Netbook Reference Platform" (you've 
> probably read about it on Planet KDE), KDE SC 4.5 could use an easy to use 
> image writer for USB flash drives.
> K3b 2.1 could support writing disk images to USB flash drives. Then release it 
> simultaneously with SC 4.5 and if you aim for a 6-months cycle, you could even 
> ask to include K3b into kdemultimedia. That would at least mean that you don't 
> have to do any branching and such for yourself. OTOH that would also mean that 
> K3b 2.1 is actively maintained until KDE SC 4.5.5.

At one point K3b actually was in kdemultimedia. But I removed it and we
created extragear to have more freedom with the releases.
(Sorry if I am being negative - I think I am just hanging on to my K3b
maintainership - trying to delay the obvious.... ;)

Cheers,
Sebastian