Plasma 5.8 and openSUSE 42.2

[Antonio Larrosa]

On 05/08/16 15:06, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On dinsdag 2 augustus 2016 02:35:30 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
>>> On 07/28/2016 07:11 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>>>> There's also the issue that if we move for one distro we'll end up
>>>> with accusations of favouratism and requests for moving for other
>>>> distros.  But then maybe we do like openSUSE :)
>>>
>>> I think it'd show we care about getting shipped and try to work
>>> with people - on a case by case basis. If you ship KDE to tons of
>>> our users, we'll try to work well with you, too.
>>
>> With the added value that it's in our best interest that any
>> distribution users are on maintained versions of our software. If
>> opensuse 42.2 is released right before our release it means that their
>> Plasma will be supported for about a month if at all (in contrast to
>> the 18 months of Plasma 5.8).
> 
> I agree with this. It's very valuable to have one of our major shippers on 
> LTS, instead of the version just before (but at that point already pretty much 
> unsupported).
> 
> Given that we postponed bigger changes until after the LTS, the risk of doing 
> this should be manageable.
> 
> So +1 from my side.
> 

Great. I would say everyone agreed, isn't it? Who has to officially
approve the change?

> Also, I'd like to take Akademy as an opportunity to talk release rhythms. The 
> current 3 monthly schedule has been picked after 5.0 when we wanted to do 
> quick follow-up releases. I think the situation has changed enough to revisit 
> this.

I agree. I hope to be able to attend those talks if they're public.

> Maybe we should put more emphasis on the LTS release, do this regularly 
> (perhaps once a year), and ship stable, but feature releases more often. We 
> may or may not ship these with bugfix updates. Food for thought.

That would be very nice. Every year, or as a minimum, make the last
release before each LTS lifecyle ends be a new LTS release.

Greetings,

-- 
Antonio Larrosa