New release-plan

[Milian Wolff]

On Friday 27 November 2009 20:21:18 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 27.11.09 19:44:31, David Nolden wrote:
> > So Andreas said the only way of getting back the source-formatter is
> > releasing KDevelop4 separately of the 4.4 release cycle.
> >
> > Due to my somewhat reduced time, and as I feel that 2 months of
> > feature-freeze are not enough after 3 years of development, I anyway
> > think that we need slightly more time to fully stabilize KDevelop.
> >
> > So, I hereby propose an alternative release plan:
> >
> > - From now on, enter a "weak" feature freeze. That means: It is allowed
> > to add specific features that we consider important for the 4.0 release,
> > after discussions. For example need at least _some_ kind of
> > source-formatting support.
> >
> > - At 1st Feburary enter "hard" feature freeze.
> 
> What about the meeting? If I recall correctly it'll probably happen
> around the time of 13th-20st. It would've fit nicely with the KDE4.4
> cycle as trunk would be wide-open again at that time. I don't think it
> makes much sense to have a developer meeting with hard freeze in place.

Yes, the time frame is correct. But we could branch anyways so this shouldn't 
be an issue, or?

> > - At 30th March, Release KDevelop 4.0.
> >
> > I think that in this time, we can make KDevelop4 really rock-solid.
> 
> I guess everybody knows my vote on it, I still think we should release
> with KDE4.4 as is right now (plus bugfixes).
> 
> However, I'll accept whatever the majority thinks. One thing that I
> think is in order then though is to move kdevplatform, kdevelop and
> quanta into extragear. Lets face it, our release cycles will never be
> along with KDE's as our pace is completely different (due to much less
> contributors and time). And I think we should respect the KDE policies
> here that clearly say that apps that want to release outside of KDE's
> cycle need to go to extragear.

Yes, maybe that is required...

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Milian Wolff
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http://milianw.de
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