4.6 Scheduler: Request for 4.6 Beta 3

[Tom Albers]

----- Original Message -----
> 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

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Tom Albers
KDE