Release Cycle

[Martin Graesslin]

On Monday 19 August 2013 21:34:40 Ho Wan Chan wrote:
> Hello Martin (and KDE Release Team),
> 
> What will happen AFTER KDE Applications 4.12 release? It's just 6
> months away, and we would like to provide on what will happen after
> it.
So far there has not been any discussion about it (AFAIK). We only had a 
discussion about reducing the release cycle. Given that my personal 
expectation is that some time after 4.12 there will be 4.13.

Cheers
Martin
> 
> Regards,
> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
> 
> 2013/8/19 Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>:
> > On Monday 19 August 2013 20:03:45 Ho Wan Chan wrote:
> >> Hello KDE Release Team,
> >> 
> >> I'm Howard Chan, and I'm currently helping KDE Promotion Team to write
> >> an article on our new release production style. Details can be found
> >> at
> >> http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2013/08/help-kde-communicate-frameworks-5-a
> >> nd
> >> .html
> >> 
> >> However, we don't know about the initiatives and timelines for KDE
> >> applications to base on KDE Platform 5, so I would like to ask for the
> >> application maintainers whether they will port their applications to
> >> KDE Frameworks 5 (and Plasma Workspaces 2) and whether they will do
> >> any more releases. The information will be included in the article.
> > 
> > When we came up with the idea of freezing the Workspaces, we explicitly
> > wanted to make sure that the applications are not affected by our
> > decision and that we don't want to force any application to go to
> > frameworks 5 early. In the workspaces we need more time for adjusting to
> > frameworks than a normal application would need. At the current time it's
> > probably still a rather bad idea to consider frameworks for most
> > applications.
> > 
> > Given your mail I'm a little bit afraid that this will generate the wrong
> > message to application developers. It looks like they are supposed to
> > think
> > about Frameworks 5 now.
> > 
> > If you want to do a blog post or a news post about it, it would be awesome
> > to explicitly point out that there will be a 4.12 release for the
> > applications and that just the workspaces are frozen. At least the German
> > media got that terribly wrong.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Martin
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