Synchronized release schedule for Plasma

[Niccolò Ve]

Hi,
Currently there is a KDE Plasma every 4 months. You are suggesting to
change that to 6 months, is that correct?
Niccolò

2020-11-24 16:07 (GMT+01:00), "Timothée Ravier" <travier at redhat.com> said:
> Hi KDE/Plasma developers!
> Nowadays, Fedora and Kubuntu make new releases twice a year within a week of
> each other, with relatively predictable release schedules.
> Unfortunately, new KDE/Plasma releases happen a little bit too late for them to
> be included in those distributions in time for the release. Thus the current
> version of KDE/Plamsa in both Fedora and Kubuntu is one release behind (at
> least on release day). It may or may not be updated after the release.
> For the Fedora KDE SIG, we have an issue about this:
> https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/25
> As distribution package maintainers, we would like Plasma developers to
> slightly alter the release schedule to align releases with a more distribution
> friendly cycle. You could consider shortening one release cycle (and then keep
> the 6 month schedule) to align releases.
> With this schedule in place, we would also benefit from more beta releases over
> a slightly longer period. They would be packaged into the beta and RC releases
> of those distributions thus enabling more pre-release testing.
> All of this would benefit both upstream and downstream:
> - More pre-release and just released software testing as users test the new
> distribution version directly with the KDE beta and fresh stable releases
> - More updated and happy users using the latest release
> - Less bugs reported against older releases, more bugs reported before the
> final stable releases
> What do you think?
> Thanks!
> Timothée Ravier for the Fedora KDE SIG
> --
> Timothée Ravier
> Red Hat & Fedora CoreOS Engineer
> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</a>
> travier at redhat.com IM: travier
>