Scheduling releases of 5.4.0 and 5.3.3

[Christoph Cullmann]

On 2019-07-05 17:01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi, especially Milian, Kevin, Aleix, Sven,
> 
> seeing people adding .vscode gitignore rules to KDE projects I sense
> something is not working well with KDevelop's reception in the public. 
> even
> in KDevelop's shell community KDE.
> 
> 
> NO RELEASES IN MONTHS? HOW DEAD IS KDEVELOP?
> 
> One thing might be that releases are not happening, showing both no 
> activity
> to the public as well as not making bug fixes & other improvements 
> finding
> their way instantly to users.
> 
> 
> LET THE RELEASES ROLL AGAIN: 5.3 NEXT WEEK?
> 
> So, let's improve here, and kick out some 5.3.3 release soonish: there 
> are a
> few commits with "fix" and translation improvements worth to get to 
> users
> (see e.g. https://cgit.kde.org/kdevelop.git/log/?h=5.3)
> What about end of next week?
> 
> 
> ... AND 5.4 NEXT MONTH?
> 
> At the same time IMHO we should schedule 5.4 release for end of July. I 
> find
> it not motivating to review people's patches (where there thankfully 
> are a
> few again recently and I will see to do my share the next days) when it 
> is
> totally unsure if & when more people will gain from that review 
> investment.
> 
> 
> DOING SOURCE TARBALL RELEASE IS BETTER THAN NO RELEASE
> 
> I know current maintainers are short of time for KDevelop matters. And 
> a
> perfect release would include things we got used to in the past, like 
> ready-
> to-install AppImage & Windows bundle provided by KDevelop team itself.
> 
> But given no-one is around anymore who has enough time to care for 
> those
> extra services, let's at least release the minimum, source tarballs, so 
> the
> classic distributions can serve their users.
> Some people happy is better than no people happy, would you not agree? 
> :) And
> once there are people again to create bundles, future releases can be
> extended again to include those.
> 
> And poking for this, of course I am available to help with some 
> workloads,
> just tell me what to do. Okteta source tarball bug fix releases take me 
> 15
> minutes in total, incl. announcement email ;)

I have a short question: Why not just let KDevelop be released with KDE 
Applications
like e.g. Kate?

Do independent releases really help?

Greetings
Christoph

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