Releases in 3 months

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, July 15, 2013 09:00:27 PM Luca Beltrame wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Replying to the message starting the thread because I forgot something
> important at least from the openSUSE perspective: what we call "maintenance
> updates".
> 
> Starting recently the KDE team at openSUSE is also managing to push minor
> releases of the latest stable SC included in the distribution. The rationale
> is that the number of bugs fixed between minor releases is *always*
> signficant and doing branch diffs is way more costly from a time and human
> perspective.
> 
> However the issue is that this may be problematic in case of shorter
> releases.
> 
> Again, I really don't want to sound negative or dissing the proposal: what I
> mean to say is that there are /doubts/, rather than absolute certainties.
> We're happy to be proven wrong, in fact. ;)

Kubuntu has also pushed minor releases as updates similarly (for several 
years).  I have a similar concern.

Scott K