Releases in 3 months

[laurent Montel]

Hi,
As you know I work a lot on kdepim (but you forgot to ask me if it was a good 
idea or I didn’t receive mail... :) )

Ok kdelibs and kde-workspace is frozen until KDE SC5 so less work for you for 
example.

But for kdepim we are not a big team, and we have a lot of feature to 
implement and it’s not possible in 2 months.

For example I finished my last feature 2 days ago (sorry I was a lot of feature 
to do for 4.11)

So I disagree to reduce development time to 2 months just because kde-
workspace is frozen.

And as it’s frozen why reduce development time ?
Why increase number of release ? Just to increase number ?

So for my point of view it’s not a good idea to reduce time, we will speed to 
create feature so more bugs because not big period of test, or we will stop to 
develop feature because we don’t have time to finish.

Why is the reason to divide by 2 the release time ?

Regards



Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas a écrit :
> Now that kde-workspace and kdelibs are going to be frozen (which in theory
> means less work for everybody) I'd like to propose a new release schedule to
> be applied starting with 4.12.
> 
> Basically the idea is to cut testing time and compensate it by keeping
> master always in a "releaseable" state, now that two major components are
> frozen it looks like it is a good time to get used to it.
> 
> You can read all the proposal in:
> http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/ReleasesProposal
> 
> Before sending this email I have checked with distro people, i18n people,
> other developers and almost all of them seemed to either like or be neutral
> about it (only one exception :p) so I hope that the proposal is not a
> complete disaster.
> 
> As its name indicates, it is a proposal, so please be constructive in the
> feedback, we can change as many things as we need.
> 
> Finally, I have scheduled a Bof at Akademy, would be nice to have all the
> feedback from the community that is not able to come before it happens:
> 
> http://community.kde.org/Akademy/2013/Wednesday#Room_A2_-_17_July
> 
> Cheers !

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