Releases in 3 months

[Scott Kitterman]

I wish I was there. 

Scott K

Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>Just as a reminder, we have the Release Team BOF tomorrow July 17 at
>10:15 at 
>Room A2
>
>Cheers,
>  Albert
>
>El Dimarts, 16 de juliol de 2013, a les 14:38:47, Scott Kitterman va
>escriure:
>> 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