Releases in 3 months

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 14:03:19, Scott Kitterman va escriure:
> 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.

That's how it should be, there is people using master daily, you're not 
supposed to drop unfinished/broken stuff into them.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Scott K