[Kde-games-devel] Panic: KDE 4.13 schedule too tight for me

[Ian Wadham]

On 18/02/2014, at 9:12 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> El Dimarts, 18 de febrer de 2014, a les 08:47:07, Ian Wadham va escriure:
>> On 18/02/2014, at 6:11 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>> El Dilluns, 17 de febrer de 2014, a les 12:59:27, Ian Wadham va escriure:
>>>> Looking back over the schedules, it seems that KDE 4.11 had a total
>>>> cycle of about 6 months after KDE 4.10 release (Feb 6 2013 to
>>>> Aug 14 2013), whereas KDE 4.12 and KDE 4.13 have had about
>>>> 4 months each (Aug 14 2013 to Dec 18 2013 and 16 April 2014).
>>> 
>>> Yes, that was widely discussed last year for 4.12.
>> 
>> Sorry, I missed that.  Was there anything about it on kde-devel, the
>> general app-developers' list?
> 
> No sorry, as far as i can see it was only in kde-core-devel and release-team 
> lists.

I must admit I was not paying attention during the 4.12 period and did not
notice that it was a 4-month period.  I was on a non-KDE project, overseas
for a month and then preparing for Christmas.
 
> At least I am not wrong when i said i sent an email with the 4.13 schedule to 
> kde-cvs-announce :D
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-cvs-announce/2014/000132.html

I think you will find I reminded you to put out that schedule, during discussion in
Review Request 114674: "Fix bug 310411:…" on 28 Dec last year … :-)

It was silly of me not to read the schedule when you announced it … :-(

>>> Ship your new features in 4.14? 4.15?
>> 
>> Ah yes, but how do I know whether there will be a 4.14 or 4.15?
> 
> There will be a 4.14, I don't think anybody in his sane mind thinks there 
> won't since KF5 won't be released before August and 4.14 schedule with 4 
> months releases would be around August, so 4.14 makes total sense.

That's reassuring to know … :-) … and it's a good fallback if I run out of time.

> Personally I do think that 4.15 still makes sense but that may not be that 
> obvious and might get some backslash from people that want to get their kf5 
> ports out sooner than later.

Are there any guidelines for porting to KDE 5 and Qt 5 yet?  I could not
find anything on Techbase.

All the best, Ian W.