reflecting on 4.10

[Kevin Ottens]

On Friday 11 January 2013 17:26:39 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > hello.
> > > 
> > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle
> > > very fresh in mind, it is a reasonble time to reflect on how it went.
> > > this thread can be a place for us to do so, if we so wish. and i hope we
> > > do so that we can improve our processes in the future.
> > > 
> > > so how do you think 4.10 went?
> > 
> > mixed feelings: we did a lot, but definitely as already noted the process
> > wasn't managed so well and the qa was not at the top (putting also myself
> > in the blame list for that, is something that each of us shares a bit)
> 
> thinking more about it...
> maybe what we actually need is someone with a wide enough knowledge of the
> codebase, that continuously uses master and tests, poking people when
> regressions happen? (especially in areas far from what one usually works in,
> since for own area "proximity blindness" can happen) this kindof happens
> already, but there isn't anythng "formal "about it
> 
> it would be something not fun to do at all, but perhaps is kinda needed?
> a figure that help the release manager?

As already pointed out, this should be a set of people not a single one.

FYI I plan to use master again[*] as my main setup sometime in 2013 (probably 
around february/march, I should have new hardware available).

Regards.

[*] Historical note no one will probably care about: That was my main and 
preferred way of doing things (and I think that was the majority for most KDE 
developers). But shortly after 4.0 release since I noticed we didn't know what 
was happening downstream, hence I decided to "sacrifice" myself to be sure to 
pester distro packagers when someone screwed up. Apparently nowadays the 
amount of people using only master full time shrunk quite a bit, it's time for 
me to move back to my preferred setup after leaving it behind for too long.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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