KDE SC 4.11 Release Schedule

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 16 de gener de 2013, a les 15:06:05, Torgny Nyblom va escriure:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 14.22.23 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 23:27:53 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > I'd like to propose some changes for 4.11, i'd like everyone to comment
> > > 
> > > 1) Drop Betas to 1
> > > 
> > >         It doesn't seem "to me" that having extra betas gives us much
> > >         more
> > > 
> > > quality,  so my suggestion is to drop Beta 2 and move Beta 1 to happen
> > > in
> > > Beta 2 time (moving also Hard Freeze) which gives us 2 more weeks for
> > > feature development
> > > 
> > > 2) Drop RCs to 1
> > > 
> > >         Same thing, it did not feel to me as that it gave us much, drop
> > >         RC2
> > > 
> > > and RC1  one week into the future
> > 
> > This can only work if the quality effort starts timely (which didn't
> > happen
> > for 4.10, it only really got into gear for RC1, way too late).
> > 
> > We need closer collaboration between release-team, quality team and other
> > parties. Only if we're sure that that process works better, we can think
> > of
> > decreasing the amount of pre-releases.
> > 
> > > 3) Increase RC time between tag and packaging
> > > 
> > >         One day between tagging and release is crazy, let's have 5/6
> > >         days
> > >         as
> > > 
> > > we  have for the other releases
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > It's not one day, but "as soon as tarballs are happy", so flexible instead
> > of "crazy short".
> 
> Can we include this in the schedule somehow, like X:th Tagging, Y-Z Release,
> or something so that everyone is clear on that sometime between Y and Z the
> release is going to happen.

Agreed, if we want to be flexible, we should say so in the schedule.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> /Regards
> Torgny
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