Releases in 3 months

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 20:58:42 Albert Astals Cid escreveu:
> 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.

yes totally diferent, and incomparable in that domain. We dont have that sort 
of resources...

> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert