Releases in 3 months

[Scott Kitterman]

Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 11:25:42, Scott Kitterman va
>escriure:
>> On Monday, July 08, 2013 04:59:50 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote:
>> > On Monday 08 July 2013 10:40:21 Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> > > We've already experienced having some parts of the SC skip
>releases and
>> > > it
>> > > was a real problem from a distribution perspective.  Please,
>let's not
>> > > do
>> > > it again.
>> > 
>> > KDE-PIM will be released, just not with the features of those
>working with
>> > a 6 months release cycle.
>> > 
>> > For example, in the case of 4.12 it will have (I hope) my
>kde-accounts
>> > integration but it might not have some of the features developed by
>> > Laurent
>> > (this is just an hypothetical example).
>> 
>> I don't know how to reconcile that with what you said in the mail I
>was
>> 
>> replying to (that you snipped):
>> > Then you can target your features for January (4.13) there is no
>pressure.
>> > As
>> > I said before you can keep having 6 months schedule while others
>like
>> > Frank
>> > (or myself) can release features based on 3 month schedule.
>> > 
>> > You don't have to change the way you work because of this.
>> 
>> Either they do have to change and do releases every three months or
>elements
>> of the SC get skipped on some releases.  I don't see how you can have
>it
>> both ways.
>
> * all the repositories get released
> * repositories only get features that are completed
>* If your feature will take more than 3 months to develop, you do it in
>a 
>branch
>
>I don't see where's the problem and why elemens of the SC will need to
>skip 
>some releases.

As long as they are developing features in branches, I agree. 

Scott K