No more release schedules.

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Dear KDE upstream,

> Since KDE is the community, how can we do a KDE 4.8? And then Platform will
> call itself 5 if I understood correctly. So how do we call a new release
> schedule then?

I just read a very good novel where all such talk about "Software Collection" 
or "Platform" was aptly called "commercial bulshytt". I think many of us, 
including your "only-users", would appreciate it if you all there upstream 
would just stick to KDE, because that is what everyone uses. Nothing else.

> > Are you serious that you want to decouple the release of our
> > frameworks from
> > each other? THat would create a huge mess, extreme amounts of
> > overhead, be
> > very destructive to our community... This puzzles me as I know how
> > much you
> > love KDE.
> 
> What does my love for KDE have to do with it? I think it's good for KDE to
> let each module set their freezes on their own, depending on which work
> flow they will adapt. If we decide it early the module maintainers have
> time enough to get used to creating the schedule.

Basically this is nothing but a dissolution of the KDE project as a whole. 
Sure, we'll end up with a lot of projects using and enhancing kdelibs (or 
whatever becomes of that), but there will be no coherence anymore.

> We can set a preferred release day twice a year, which every module can
> work to if they like.
> We can still package and release them if you like, that's independent of
> the schedules.

That both makes no sense. Suggestion 1 fails completely with the "if they 
like" part, since we all know already how much pain the "out of sync kdepim" 
caused. Suggestion 2 fails with the "independent of the schedules" part, 
because you can't release somthing that is not stabilized and tested.

Please try to get some sense back...

Cheers, 
Andreas

-- 

Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge at gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/
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