New release-plan

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 27.11.09 20:39:24, Milian Wolff wrote:
> 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?

Well, KDE usually branches at rc, so people doing bugfixes and feature
development don't have to track two branches. And people who are do not
have the discipline to give bugfixing enough time are kinda forced into
it. And unfortunately branches completely suck with svn.

Andreas 

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