[kde-community] Proposal Two: The Sigma Release Days and independent releases

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dijous, 24 d'abril de 2014, a les 00:04:13, Albert Astals Cid va escriure:
> El Dimarts, 22 d'abril de 2014, a les 11:33:51, Mario Fux va escriure:
> > Proposal: Offer the possibility for the suites/groups of apps to release
> > independently and make two, three or more release days ("Sigma" as the
> > greek symbol for the sum) per year where and when we make big promo for
> > KDE software.
> > 
> > Details:
> > Promo wise it could make sense to still have some release days where and
> > when we release and announce some of our apps and software together and in
> > a big way. Suites, groups and single KDE projects could decide on their
> > own
> > to participate on such an event. (See for a formalization of the release
> > and announcement process in a next proposal).
> > So Sigma (or what other name) would be a cumulative release and
> > announcement day and with discussions like this one [1] it should once
> > and for all be clear that there is no and will never be a "KDE5" and that
> > "Sigma != KDE" (and no, I don't really believe that all the discussions
> > will end, but that's ok ;-).
> > 
> > Here are some fictive examples for such Sigma days/weeks:
> > - Sigma in July 2014 includes KDE Core Apps 5.0, KF5 5.0, Plasma 2014.6,
> > Calligra 2.9 and Amarok 3.0
> > - Sigma in January 2015 includes KDE Core Apps for Desktop 5.1, KDE Core
> > Apps for Tablet 5.0, Plasma 2014.12, Digikam 4.4 and KDE Edu 5.2
> > - Sigma in July 2015 includes KDE Core Apps for Desktop 5.2, KF5 5.2,
> > Plasma Active 5, Bodega 1.0 and KDE PIM 5.1
> > 
> > And in between we've independent releases of Plasma, KDE PIM, Amarok, etc.
> > with or without some promo.
> > 
> > Next steps:
> > - Rhythm of Sigma: How often do we do such a Sigma day/week? Every 6 or 4
> > months?
> > - Should it be a week or a day?
> > - How should we call it?
> 
> I do think that this is more something for the promo/marketing people to
> vouch in since as far as I understand a Sigma is basically "nothing" from

My English got confused "vouch in" -> "comment about".

BTW in generally i think it makes sense to join some of the announcemnts if 
there's too much happening, but i'm not a promo/marketing guy :-)

Cheers,
  Albert

> the development/engineering point of view, it'd be just announcing with
> more fanfare something that we had already published less loudly in the
> past.
> 
> Now what I don't like from this example is that it says "KDE Edu 5.2" as if
> Sigma in January 2015 could contin let's say "KDE PIM 5.1" and "KDE Edu
> 5.2".
> 
> I honestly don't think we have the manpower needed to do such a huge amount
> of different releases as that, and i don't think it'd be beneficial from
> the engineering point of view either since it'd be a pain to know when some
> project is on freeze or not if we let each and every app that is now part
> of "KDE Applications" go on its own release schedule.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > Now please tell me your opinion in a short, constructive and polite way.
> > Details can be discussed in Randa and/or at Akademy. So let's concentrate
> > on the bigger ideas.
> > 
> > Thanks and best regards
> > Mario
> > 
> > [1] https://plus.google.com/+JosPoortvliet/posts/EZvEsvGYTZf
> > And please don't discuss "KDE" branding here. The above link provides some
> > very good explanations why "KDE" is since years the people and not the
> > software.
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