Releases in 3 months

[Àlex Fiestas]

On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:22:20 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:
> > So. first one.
> 
> Second one
> 
> Release frequency.
> 
> We have a giant quality problem. Distros won't ship a .0 release to real
> users (as opposed to testers/power users) and wait until there has been
> a couple of bug fix releases. Until we ensure that our .0 releases are
> usable I don't see how we can cut down on that.
> 
> Some distros release in a 6 month cycle. Others in a 8. and ones even in
> longer cycles. Going for anything shorter than 6 months will ensure that
> distros are going to skip releases. why work with releases that they
> aren't going to ship to users anyways?
Not by distributions working that way I guess.

Part of the reasons why I want this release schedule is exactly for these 
distros. Let me explain.

Right now distributions pick the release they see fit and make a distro with 
it. It might be .0, .2 or .5.

If a distribution in their right decide to pick a .5 release wile a .0 is 
already out there (this already happened), what is happening here is that a 
HUGE release with a LOT of changes won't even get to the users of that 
distribution at least for another distribution cycle. This usually happens 
with distributions that have a release cycle of 9 months.

With having releases every 3 months we make the amount of features smaller and 
more often so distributions will always be able to pick a more updated release 
than with the current situation.

> And given there need to be some stabilization and integration work, I'm
> sure skipping releases would be the default for most distros. Hopefully
> distros can coordinate and at least skip the same. Mostly leading to the
> other releases being useless because they only reach very few users.
This is already happening, no change here.

> And as it currently is, we need the .4 and .5 releases.
and .6 and .7 and .8 and .9, we could have a 4.0.200, there is always need of 
bugfixing releases, question is how many of these point releases are pending 
of upstream KDE and not downstream distros.

To make it clear, I WANT to have .4 and .5 releases, just not made by upstream 
developers.