[RFC] KDE 4.0 Release Roadmap

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On March 14, 2007, Olaf Schmidt wrote:
> Ellen Reitmayr used a good formulation for this in a post to the release
> team list: KDE 4.0 should be at least as good as KDE 3.5. And I agree. If

my concern with this "metric" is that "at least as good as 3.5" is highly 
subjective and will be different for different people. PIM may not be "as 
good as 3.5", for instance, and for some people i know in the project that is 
an "unnacceptable regression" over 3.5. there are many such examples 
(accessibility? ;). this will likely make it very difficult to get enough 
people to "sign off" on the release, even though the release would otherwise 
be perfectly respectable.

much more reasonable, imho, is to say "these following things must be there to 
this level", without being too overly specific or not comprehensive enough. 
i've read suggested lists for this that are quite reasonable. with such a 
list in hand we have something real to measure against.

this is important because we -must- release. release early, release often is 
not just a good idea, it's a health requirement. just because we've screwed 
up on that in recent times doesn't give us permission to continue doing so.

i don't think anyone is suggesting to release an unfinished, overly buggy or 
otherwise crappy set of kde packages in $RELEASE_MONTH. in fact, i think most 
of us are working hard to make sure that isn't what happens.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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