Releases in 3 months

[Luigi Toscano]

On Wednesday 10 of July 2013 19:17:37 Luigi Toscano wrote:
> The more you go down in the stack, the more you need stability, and no, it's
> not true that with short release time the features will be smaller with
> less bugs, because a feature could have been in development for a long
> time, so it's not so small. You can say that there is more time for testing
> it, but then something can go wrong in the integration phase (and it
> happens, that's why the companies invest in QA departments).

... and to complete my thought: as in KDE we don't have a strong structured QE 
department (even if the people in kde-testing do their work, but there are 
structural limits), this testing imho can't be outsourced to packagers only 
when developers moves to master only/devel branches and the next big features. 
No one can force someone to do it, of course, but... there are simply the 
resource for moving this work to someone else.
And even when the work is more structured in companies, the decision about 
what to backport and what not is *also* in the hands of developers (with input 
from other party like QA and project management).

Ciao
-- 
Luigi