Releases in 3 months

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 21:54:02 Albert Astals Cid escreveu:
> El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 20:03:14, Nuno Pinheiro va escriure:
> > 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...
> 
> Resources for what? Have you seen their announcements? They are basically
> non existent.

yes and they have paid people to do all that stuf, and deliver that, we don't 
and I supose we don't wnat to deliver on the same tone?....

Any way, this is just my opininon on an area that completly burned me up...

> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > >   Albert