[Kmymoney-devel] Schedule for future releases

[Ian Neal]

Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Alvaro Soliverez<asoliverez at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hello all,
>> as I promised, here is a proposal for a schedule.
>>
>> - move into extragear
>> - sync with KDE SC schedule
>> - short releases before kdereview
>>
>> First of all, if possible, I would like to get KMyMoney into extragear
>>   by KDE SC 4.5. That's about 8 months from now, so I think it is
>> possible.
>>
>> Along with that, I think we should sync KMM releases with KDE. Of
>> course, that has its pros and cons. As a pro, we are more predictable
>> for distros, so they know when to expect a release from us. It has the
>> con that we have to adapt our development to the KDE schedule,
>> including soft and hard feature-freeze, and string-freeze, of course.
>> That means that we only 4 months every 6 to work on new features, and
>> 2 full months dedicated to bug fixing and stabilizing new features.
>> Until KDE moves to git, that might slow our development on new
>> features, specially for those who don't get many bug reports, kind of
>> like happened with the work on porting the widgets for this release.
>>
>> To move to extragear, we have to get KMM into kdereview before freeze.
>> I think that's about May. So, I would go with short release cycles,
>> about 6 weeks each, and have 3 releases before moving to kdereview.
>> Each cycle would be 4-week full development, and 2-week string-freeze
>> and stabilization. The first string-freeze would start about February
>> 1st, which is the end of string-freeze for 4.4, and release of KMM
>> 3.96 about February 15th.
>> KMM 3.97 release would be about March 29th and 3.98 would be mid-May
>> and then move to kdereview.
>>
>> What's your opinion? It also means moving to a tighter integration
>> with KDE, which on one hand opens up possibilities due to the
>> resources it provides, but it also means losing some control (for
>> example, release schedule).
>>
>>      
> Have you had time to go through this? Any objections?
> If not, we can set the string-freeze on February 1st and the release
> of 3.96 in February 15th.
> We can revise the schedule of the next releases based on this experience.
>
>    
No objections from me. Is it worth checking on the KMyMoney2-i18n list?

Ian