Releases in 3 months

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 19:32:13, Nuno Pinheiro va escriure:
> 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..

Not a marketing expert, but Firefox has been releasing like crazy, 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases every month it seems, of course it's a 
totally different domain from ours.

Cheers,
  Albert