4.2 and 4.3 release date reminder

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Sun Aug 17 22:14:50 CEST 2008


On Sunday 17 August 2008 14:15:10 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Sunday 17 August 2008 17:19:06 Matt Rogers wrote
> > I'm afraid I don't follow anything in the first paragraph after the  
> > first 20 words or so. Perhaps you could clarify a bit more?
> 
> Next year's Akademy is one month earlier than this year's. This year, it 
> worked rather nicely, being able to present 4.1 as done deal during Akademy 
> and hacking away on the future.
> 
> Next year, we'll clash. Potential problems:
> 
> - release (or release preps) during Akademy (while Akademy is very busy for 
>   lots involved with the release team)
> - trunk in freeze (well, depending on our plans ;-)) during Akademy (while 
>   such meetings usually destabilize the codebase)
> - The wider community is closer to what developers run, making many PR things 
>   much easier
> 
> So gradually shifting the release backward would allow us for the same nice 
> timing as we had this year.
> 
> On another note, it's rather cool we see this kind of issues nearly a year in 
> advance already. Yay for plannability.
> -- 
I wish we had a KDE Planning Calendar, where such things as Akademy
were blocked out.


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