0.3 - done. Time for 0.4!

David Edmundson david at davidedmundson.co.uk
Thu Jan 26 14:55:50 UTC 2012


Maybe if we just offset by a week or two?

2012/1/26 Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 14:30, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> I personally think (in retrospect having seen what happened at 0.1,
>> 0.2 and 0.3) that releasing in sync with KDE has more downsides than
>> good.
>>
>> Our news tends to get drowned out by the massive "KDE 4.8", when we
>> released 0.2 it seemed we got more buzz the other 2 times. I guess
>> there were more exciting features too, but I think this is a
>> contributing factor. Also promo people, translation people and
>> packagers are far busier sorting out the important main release.
>>
>> 0.4 is set for ~April, but it's definitely something to think about
>> when planning 0.5.
>
>
> I agree. Our dot article is also intentionally delayed so that 4.8 can be on
> top for a while (I was informed) and media do not really pick our
> announcement up. The question is if we still intend to be part of KDE SC
> itself (ie. following SC release cycle etc). Then we'd be in that
> announcement anyway.
>
> This release schedule also plays nicely with distro releases. Now they have
> lots of time to package us and include in the main repos (as most of them
> are released in April/May and October/November). Should we release after
> their release, we'd be available only in user repos (which is still better
> than nothing).
>
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
>
>
>>
>>
>> Dave
>>
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