KDE 4.1 planning

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 07 January 2008, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> On Monday 07 January 2008 23:14:55 Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Monday 07 January 2008, John Tapsell wrote:
> > > I know many people feel 6 months is too short, but personally it's
> > > annoying to have people filing bugs that I fixed 9 months ago.
> >
> > Then you should backport your fixes to the stable branch. ;)
> > I'm for the September release.
>
> I completely agree with Andras and think that 9 month release is better.
> KDE 4.0 release rush was already too much of a change comparing to what we
> did in the past. Let's get back right now to proven 9 month release cycle
> and experiment no more.

i agree for after 4.1, but for 4.1 the following should be considered:

- Qt 4.4 is out *very* soon now and it would be good to take advantage quickly 
of some of those things (like aliens and WOC)

- future 9 month cycles would then align with Qt releases (they are on a 9 
month cycle too)

- we have quite a few things that are 90% done that would be good to get out 
sooner rather than later

- this would give us a great way to show momentum (essentially because we have 
all those 90% done features just waiting in the wings)

after 4.1 i agree with you completely though =)

> PS: I don't want to see us writing messages like "KDE 4.1 is not yet KDE 4"

i honestly don't think we'll need to =)

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