Krita 3.0.1 Release Process

[Wolthera]

The 3.0.1 release announcement and the docs are already done, that's
something Scott and I take care of. (Release announcement needs a few
images and maybe links, but we have two full weeks)

The only thing that really hiccups is translations, because that is a
separate group of people with a completely different system(like, they
don't even use git).

If you want to set a formal deadline for  the announcements, talk to me and
scott?

Op 18 aug. 2016 14:54 schreef "Dmitry Kazakov" <dimula73 at gmail.com>:

> Ok, Boud. Then I will just not take part in this release. No announcements
> for the 2.5k people in vk community, no habrahabr post with 100k+ people
> reading it, no help with translations, nothing except of bugfixes for the
> bugs you add to the phabricator board.
>
> To make announcements or coordinate translators I need to have information
> about the release. The announcement should be ready in at least a day or
> two before the day of the release, so I could delegate translation to
> anyone and don't get up at six in the morning at the day of the release to
> translate it myself. The translators should be notified that the builds are
> coming so they could push the changes to SVN. Not all the translators have
> an SVN commit access, so this process is not superfast. From this point of
> view 3.0 release was a failure. Due to the fact that everything has been
> done at the last day, I couldn't delegate anything and had to do everything
> myself. Though there were people who could do it instead of me if they were
> notified in time.
>
> Just try to understand that your are not the only person in this project.
> And not all the people who involved into the process are motivated enough
> to sit on IRC all day long and read all the messages just to know when the
> builds are ready, or are going to be ready.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
>>
>> I was surprised to read on irc that I apparently still have
>> to make a decision about using Trello or not. I would have
>> assumed my last mail was clear enough, but in case it wasn't:
>>
>> No, we will not use Trello this release cycle. We will do this
>> release cycle like we agreed upon on July 18th, as documented
>> originally in this google doc:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wFfOD8ce-8MD8tYD8FrXIgVL
>> JwkXtMSEHi_IPQ0yMGI/edit
>>
>> Which contains the notes we made during that meeting.
>>
>> After the release we can discuss whether we need improvements
>> or whether everything went fine. When it comes to planning,
>> there are absolutely no surprises:
>>
>> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pv232t7pu0acs
>> tl5c64357mlo4%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Amsterdam
>>
>> Making dev builds during the stabilization phase happens whenever
>> I or someone else has time for it. I tend to do those in the
>> weekends and try to release on Monday. Those are not really
>> releases, though for clarities' sake, I might call them alpha's
>> or beta's. But they come out whenever I have time or energy.
>>
>> I would like to remind everyone that
>>
>> a) we made 12 2.9 releases and that went almost always completely
>> fine, with very minor hickups.
>>
>> b) nothing major went "wrong" that merited all the stress.
>>
>> c) because we release often we can afford to be less stressed
>> about releases. If something slips through, take a deep breath,
>> it's not the end of the world and not a reason to stress out. It
>> can be fixed in the next release, and in the meantime we get
>> used again to frequent releases and things will keep going
>> smoother.
>>
>> d) In contrast to 3.0, where we actually didn't even have a
>> source release, we will have that for 3.0.1 -- that's something
>> to be happy about! The source tarballs will also contain the
>> latest transslations automatically, and we'll build the binaries
>> from the source tarballs -- which is a major step because before
>> they were made from git.
>>
>> Finally, I have been home sick for nearly two months now. Burn-out
>> is a serious condition and I can do with a lot less stress. Stress
>> happens not because I have something that needs to be done, it happens
>> when someone decides that I need to do something, or need to do
>> something in a different way. That needs to be avoided.
>>
>> I hope that this is clear.
>> --
>> Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dmitry Kazakov
>
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