Plasm 6.1 Kickoff Meeting notes

[Nicolas Fella]

# Plasma 6.1 kickoff meeting notes

## 6.0 retrospective

Generally well received# Plasma 6.1 kickoff meeting notes

## 6.0 retrospective

Generally well received

Problems:
- Neon's rollout was/still is bumpy. Needs retrospective from Neon
developers on what happend
- Nvidia:
     - Missing configuration to enable modesetting (downstream issue)
     - Missing implicit sync makes XWayland glitchy (upstream issue).
Potentially backportable patches exist
     - Resume from suspend broken. Some kernel-level thing exists
(NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations), needs research/documentation

## 6.1 release planning

Idea: Keep the megarelese? No strong benefit, unless there was a unified
LTS release

Goals for the release planning:
  - Keep time to next feature release short to allow for gaps in
(Wayland) feature set to close quickly
  - Align with fall/October releases of distros
  - More extensive beta releases

Tentative idea:
  - 6.1 in June
  - Two Betas
  - Slightly extend support window for the release to avoid gap between
6.1 ending and distros picking up 6.2
  - Needs coordination with distros before finalizing

Dependencies (business as usual):
  - Qt 6.7
  - Frameworks as of Beta date

Feature/work item ideas:
  - David R: Emulated Input integration
  - Marco: Work on tiling features, folderview refactoring
  - Nico: Wayland a11y and graphics tablet work, QML tooling
  - Kai: New Fonts KCM/tools
  - Vlad: Work on Rendering in KWin
  - Jakob: Mouse gestures, per-monitor brightness
  - Niccolo: Floating dialogs, icons, 2D gestures

# Sprint

We want a sprint sometime soon. There's a megasprint planned for April,
avoid doing something too close to it to avoid travel overload.

Summer might be a better time.

Needs someone to volounteer organizing


Problems:
- Neon's rollout was/still is bumpy. Needs retrospective from Neon
developers on what happened
- Nvidia:
     - Missing configuration to enable modesetting (downstream issue)
     - Missing implicit sync makes XWayland glitchy (upstream issue).
Potentially backportable patches exist
     - Resume from suspend broken. Some kernel-level thing exists
(NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations), needs research/documentation

## 6.1 release planning

Idea: Keep the megarelese? No strong benefit, unless there was a unified
LTS release

Goals for the release planning:
  - Keep time to next feature release short to allow for gaps in
(Wayland) feature set to close quickly
  - Align with fall/October releases of distros
  - More extensive beta releases

Tentative idea:
  - 6.1 in June
  - Two Betas
  - Slightly extend support window for the release to avoid gap between
6.1 ending and distros picking up 6.2
  - Needs coordination with distros before finalizing

Dependencies (business as usual):
  - Qt 6.7
  - Frameworks as of Beta date

Feature/work item ideas:
  - David R: Emulated Input integration
  - Marco: Work on tiling features, folderview refactoring
  - Nico: Wayland a11y and graphics tablet work, QML tooling
  - Kai: New Fonts KCM/tools
  - Vlad: Work on Rendering in KWin
  - Jakob: Mouse gestures, per-monitor brightness
  - Niccolo: Floating dialogs, icons, 2D gestures

# Sprint

We want a sprint sometime soon. There's a megasprint planned for April,
avoid doing something too close to it to avoid travel overload.

Summer might be a better time.

Needs someone to volounteer organizing