Releases in 3 months

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas escreveu:
> 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 !

Juts to share my opinion based on my experience that is different from most....

usually a release takes time, from a design/marking POV we used to have long 
conversations about the key messaging, the spirit of the thing what are the 
selling points, etc etc... It was a alot of work, so much that I started 
grouping the work in chunks of 2 example the wallpaper is new replace every 2 
releases... The problem is that its just to much, I take alot of time maturing 
a design concept that is scalable, and this process is many times painful.

sooo please no it dilutes the marketing work..