Plasma 5: Roadmap post 5.0

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Bernd Steinhauser <
linux at bernd-steinhauser.de> wrote:

> On 23/06/14 17:27, Martin Graesslin wrote:
>
>> On Monday 23 June 2014 16:56:55 Marco Martin wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 23 June 2014, Rohan Garg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone
>>>> I was wondering, has there been any discussions on whether or not bug
>>>> fix releases for Plasma 5 will be provided after the 5.0 release? Or
>>>> will users simply have to wait for the next 5.1 release to get bug
>>>> fixes?
>>>>
>>>> There also doesn't seem to be any indication of what the time frame
>>>> will be between Plasma 5 releases ( I was told 3 months by some
>>>> people, this doesn't seem to be written down in a wiki page).
>>>>
>>>> Would be awesome if someone could indicate what the roadmap is after
>>>> the Plasma 5.0 release :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I assumed there would have been monthly bugfix releases as in 4.x?
>>>
>>
>> +1 on monthly bug fixes.
>>
>> Concerning feature release: for KWin I would like to get to a six week
>> schedule (for Wayland porting) and a synced with bug fixes release
>> together
>> with plasma. For Plasma I could imagine anything between 3 months and 6
>> months. 3 months might be a good idea to bring important features back as
>> soon
>> as possible.
>>
> If we as distributors are not expected to ship it as a default desktop, is
> there much point in releasing bug fix releases?
>
> So why not—for the first months after the initial release—go for rapid
> releases that bring both bug fixes but also missing features that users
> will want anyway?
>
> Plasma Next already works quite well, at least the parts that are there.
> The main showstoppers imo for a broader range of users are missing
> features, i.e. plasmoids.
>
> From the distributors point of view, for an experimental software like
> plasma next, that is mainly targeted at bug finders, testers etc., I would
> rather like to ship the most usable version, not a first stripped down
> version with just a few bugfix releases.
> Don't get me wrong, bugfix releases are very important, but I'm sure that
> the bugfixes go into feature releases, too. ;-)
>
> Best Regards,
> Bernd
>
>
I think it's a good idea.

Aleix
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