Releases in 3 months

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 20:40:59, Heinz Wiesinger va escriure:
> On Monday 08 July 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> IMHO that's a bit hasty. There was previous talk about Frameworks,
> Workspaces and Applications (potentially) having a different release
> schedule. I don't think anything has been really talked about there yet,
> but that's something that would definitely play into the current proposal.
> No matter the outcome of the discussion, you'd want to avoid changing
> release processes twice within a short period of time, and with releases of
> KF5 and PW2 sometime next year (assumption) that would certainly be a thing
> to keep in mind.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The philosophy is nice, but it's hardly enforcable. So it's something
> everyone needs to adhere to voluntarily and that may take some convincing,
> especially when it involves changing current (working) practices. 3 months
> seems rather ambitious there.

The "hardly enforcable" argument is a non-argument, our current policies as 
enforcable as the ones Alex is proposing.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> > 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.
> 
> Any reason not to CC kde-packager or kde-release-team? IMHO they'd be
> primary audiences for this.
> 
> Grs,
> Heinz