[Kde-extra-gear] Freezes in the Extra Gear?

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Klas Kalass wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> In the main modules there are the IMHO rather successfull feature and message 
> freeze periods that help synchronizing all efforts. 
> 
> Since we would like to encourage other groups to work on the apps in the extra 
> gear as well (mainly translators and documentation writers) I think those 
> periods would be a great feature to have for each individual app. We could 
> outline a template release cycle for one app and provide an overview for the 
> timelines the app maintainers are aiming at (if they want to participate in 
> this).
> 
> So I have got 2 proposals.
> 
> First I wanted to ask what you think about having an "official" release cycle 
> for individual apps.
[snip]
> Good Idea? Useless?

Definitely a good idea. I do impose myself some message freeze before 
releases so it would be good to have a way to notify others about it.


> That directly leads to a second thing: A website for the Extra Gear.
> That could host descriptions of the apps and links to the respective homepages 
> (or host those homepages). Most importantly it would contain one or more 
> "status pages" where everyone could have an overview of the stages the apps 
> are in. That would allow a translator to judge if it is the right time to 
> start work on the apps. 
> Actually I think about one page with a timeline starting at the current date, 
> showing all apps and their respective timelines and then a page for each app 
> where there could be more detailed info.
> 
> And a website would be a great place to outline the Extra Gear "Mission 
> Statement" :)
> What do you think?

Sure, good idea #2 :-) this web site could also feature a link to the 
mailing list, cause there's none right now :-) (not even on 
http://kde.org/mailinglists.html)

Regards,
   Aurélien