Release Cycle

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Thursday 22 August 2013 23:35:49 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dijous, 22 d'agost de 2013, a les 08:07:22, Jos Poortvliet va escriure:
> > On Tuesday 20 August 2013 22:40:29 Mark wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > > > El Dimarts, 20 d'agost de 2013, a les 01:54:48, Albert Astals Cid va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > >> El Dimarts, 20 d'agost de 2013, a les 01:17:18, Aaron J. Seigo va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > >> > On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 00:24:53 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > >> > > El Dilluns, 19 d'agost de 2013, a les 22:18:26, Aaron J. Seigo va
> > > >> 
> > > >> escriure:
> > > >> > > > On Monday, August 19, 2013 22:14:26 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > >> > > > > There will be a 4.13? Most probably.
> > > >> > > > > Will it be in 2014? For sure
> > > >> > > > > Which month? Noone knows, you can probably guess it'll be
> > > >> > > > > between
> > > >> > > > > Q2
> > > >> > > > > and
> > > >> > > > > Q3
> > > >> > > > > since Q1 would mean <= 3 months of development and Q4 would
> > > >> > > > > mean
> > > >> > > > > 
> > > >> > > > > >=
> > > >> > > > > 
> > > >> > > > > 10
> > > >> > > > > months.
> > > >> > > > 
> > > >> > > > unless we change the development cycle, which has not yet been
> > > >> > > > done,
> > > >> > > > which
> > > >> > > > month will 4.13 be in?
> > > >> > > 
> > > >> > > Are you disagreeing with the 4.12 schedule?
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > No; however, on
> > > >> > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.12_Release_Schedule it
> > > >> > says
> > > >> > “THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL YET” four times right at the top. I was under
> > > >> > the
> > > >> > impression that it was still being discussed and wasn’t ... you
> > > >> > know
> > > >> > ..
> > > >> > official yet.
> > > >> 
> > > >> It will be official when i get tired of waiting for people to oppose
> > > >> to
> > > >> it.
> > > >> If it makes you happier, I can declare it official now.
> > > > 
> > > > There you go.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > >   Albert
> > > >> 
> > > >> Well, not now, i'm going to sleep now.
> > > >> 
> > > >> Cheers,
> > > >> 
> > > >>   Albert
> > > >> 
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> > > What you just did means that KDE SC 4.12 will in fact be a 5 month
> > > release cycle. Earlier there was talk about outlining the future
> > > releases. That blog/news item is probably going to have to take the
> > > new 5 month cycle into account.
> > 
> > Yes. What about this then:
> > =======
> > KDE frameworks 5 preview 1 December 2013
> > KDE frameworks 5 release 1st half 2014
> > KDE Workspaces 4.11 is last release (LTS)
> > KDE Workspaces 2.0 preview 1st half 2014
> > KDE Workspaces 2.0 release 2nd half 2014
> > KDE Applications 4.12 December 18 2013
> > KDE Applications 4.13 June 2014
> 
> 4.12 and 4.13 will include kdelibs too (that have been almost-frozen for a
> while but we still increase its version number on each release)
> 
> Also we don't have a date for 4.13.
> 
> It may well be May or July or even March or August since we haven't started
> planning for it and we can't do it since at Akademy it was agreed we'd do a
> shorter cycle (4.12) and then evaluate if that had worked or not, and to
> evaluate it, we have to let 4.12 happen.
> 
> So please be very clear June is a guessed month from your side since the
> Release Team has not started discussing about it.

"As with any schedule for a major technological transition, please note that 
the above is subject to change."
Is that enough? Please note, as Aaron already said, that it is better to have 
a plan now and change it later than to have no plan at all.


> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > As with any schedule for a major technological transition, please note
> > that
> > the above is subject to change.
> > ==========
> > 
> > If this is OK then we'll communicate it this way.
> > 
> > > I like this new shorter cycle!
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