Advance FW 6.30? (Was: Re: Draft: Release schedules for Plasma 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9)

[Martin Riethmayer]

Hello Release-Team,

following up Davids mail to plasma-devel (see below): There's an idea to 
release Plasma 6.8 on KDEs 30th birthday (i.e. release 6.8.0 on October 
14th). [1]

This would shift dates slightly for all versions before (soft freeze, 
betas and tar-creation) and would result in Plasma 6.8 missing the 
release of FW 6.30 by one day (if normal timings are kept).

Would it be possible to advance the release of FW 6.30 by 1-2 days? I.e. 
6.30 would be released on September 9th or 10th instead of September 11th.

Other alternatives I can see (there may be more, of course):
- use FW 6.29 for Plasma 6.8
- delay Plasma 6.7.90 by 2 days (it would shorten the beta period for 
beta 1, presumably, by those 2 days)

Best regards

Martin

[1] https://invent.kde.org/teams/promo/30th-anniversary/-/work_items/7

Am 02.03.26 um 10:08 schrieb David Redondo:
> Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2026, 16:13 schrieb Martin Riethmayer:
>> Hi everyone,
>> [....]
> 
>>
>> +++++ [Plasma 6.8.] +++++
>> 6.7.80		2026-09-03
>> 6.7.90		2026-09-17 [Note5]
>> 6.7.91		2026-10-01
>> TAR		2026-10-15
>> 6.8.0		2026-10-20
>> 6.8.1		2026-10-27
>> 6.8.2		2026-11-03
>> 6.8.3		2026-11-17
>> 6.8.4		2026-12-08
>> 6.8.5		2027-01-12
>> 6.8.6		2027-03-16 [Note6]
>>
> as all of you know this year is the 30th anniversary of KDE. Like we did for
> 5.23 and the 25th anniversary let's make 6.8 the 30th anniversary edition.
> We released 5.23 on the day of the anniversary, I propose we do the same for
> 6.8. See also: https://invent.kde.org/teams/promo/30th-anniversary/-/
> work_items/7
> I propose:
> Shift the release dates by a week so 6.8.0 releases on the 14th of October.
> The patch and beta releases could keep their day of the week. In detail:
> 
>   +++++ [Plasma 6.8.] +++++
>   6.7.80		2026-08-27
>   6.7.90		2026-09-10 ¹
>   6.7.91		2026-09-24
>   TAR		2026-10-08
>   6.8.0		2026-10-14
>   6.8.1		2026-10-20
>   6.8.2		2026-10-27
>   6.8.3		2026-11-10
>   6.8.4		2026-12-01
>   6.8.5		2027-01-05
>   6.8.6		2027-03-02
> 
> ¹ this means we would miss the proposed frameworks released on the 11th, maybe
> delay or ask Nicolas to release frameworks a bit earlier?
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> 
> 
>