4.6 Scheduler: Request for 4.6 Beta 3

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 08:05, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma at kde.org> wrote:
> On xxMondayxx 13 xxDecemberxx 2010 14:35:07 Tom Albers wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> > > > I'm waiting for objections.
>>
>> I'm going to raise one :(
>>
>> > > > So far we don't have any objections. If there are no objections in
>> > > > day or so
>> > > > I will offiically change the release schedule.
>> > >
>> > > Will's question is not answered yet.
>> > >
>> > > |  Would the PIM team spend the extra 2 weeks on the desktop
>> > > |  versions or
>> > > |  on Kontact Mobile?
>> >
>> > Yes to both.
>>
>> I've read Tills mail and it is pretty clear to me. The focus for KDAB lies
>> on the mobile version for the next two months. That means the desktop
>> version will benefit from bugfixes in the underlying libs and akonadi, but
>> KMail desktop will receive only little love. Although Till thinks KMail is
>> ready enough to be release, I get the impression that it's not from
>> several reports.
>>
>> Anyhow, I think 2 weeks delay will not solve much.
>>
>> > Especially, Kevin asked for more time to work on data migration issues
>> > which mainly affect the desktop.
>>
>> Although this is a very import argument, I'm not sure two weeks is enough.
>> And when the data migration might be ok, kmail itself might not be up for
>> the end-user job yet.
>>
>> My proposal would be to continue with the schedule as planned, the kdepim
>> team would need to decide to either release it as normal, relase it but
>> mark the kdepim/kmail part as 'experimental', or skip the .0.
>>
>> Best,
> I agree that delaying everything for a hypothetical benefit is too much,
> especially if we considere that the current release schedule is tied to the
> git migration.
>
> Speaking of that, I think the Git people who want to move on 20th December
> must write all mailing lists in order to make it clear to every KDE
> contributor what is going to happen and when.
>
> Can we as the Release Team ask them to do so?

I, as a Git person, asked the release team to send something over the
announcement list last week.

In the normal course of doing the conversion I've been emailing lists
relevant to what I'm working on to double-check my work. Today I'm
going to send out a big cross-post for projects in
kdebase-workspace/runtime (assuming sysadmins upload the repos). But I
think something more formal & broad-spectrum from the release team
would be nice.

Ian