Proposed KDE 4.1 Release Schedule

[Helio Chissini de Castro]

On Tue 08 Jan 2008 08:38:44 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Monday 07 January 2008 15:26:21 Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> > On Tue 08 Jan 2008 07:25:53 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 11:34:39 Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > > > Not perfect, but it's a start. Comments?
> > > >
> > > > I miss the following information:
> > > >
> > > > a) Why was July chosen? Was it because it is 4.0 + 6months?  So if it
> > > > is "old release + 6months", then we go back to the idea of aligning
> > > > with distributions. Proposing a 6 month cycle, but aligning it to the
> > > > 4.0 date which was decided by a release event plan is not a good
> > > > choice imho. Note that I do principally like the 6 month cycle.
> > >
> > > July should work for Fedora, Ubuntu assuming three months is enough to
> > > do the integration work. Maybe you (or coolo) can fill in openSUSE
> > > plans? (Those on the website are not particularly helpful.)
> > >
> > > For Ubuntu and Fedora it looks like they're releasing in April and
> > > October.
> >
> > I'm glad that nobody remembers us ...
> > Anyway, who cares about distros shipping KDE.
>
> Well, I'm running Mandriva *right now*, so I definitely do. :-)
>
> Can you quickly explain what Mandriva's release strategy looks like, and
> what kind of schedule would be preferable for you?

Two possible dates are common to us. We usually have major version and half 
major version releases.

Major ones, 200x will usually be on first week of October
half major, 200x.1 will usually be on first or second week in april

So a July release will be perfect for us, giving us plenty of time to prepare 
the major release.

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Helio Chissini de Castro
KDE Project South America Primary Contact