KDE SC 4.11 Release Schedule

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Divendres, 18 de gener de 2013, a les 19:37:52, Martin Gräßlin va escriure:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2013 23:27:53 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dimarts, 15 de gener de 2013, a les 16:30:50, Allen Winter va escriure:
> > > Howdy,
> > > 
> > > A proposed KDE SC 4.11 Release schedule is now available at
> > > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Release_Schedule
> > > 
> > > (created using toma's really useful releaseschedule program)
> > > 
> > > Please review and report back any obvious problems, for example
> > > conflicts with conferences (i.e. Akademy).
> > 
> > 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
> 
> I don't think that the number of Betas and RCs are too much and I think that
> more Betas and more RCs help improving the quality. Reducing the number of
> Betas and RCs means removing the chance to properly test stuff. In KWin we
> had more than once that we pushed a patch to a beta to see if it fixes a
> problem with the option to still revert it in the next beta. We need to do
> that in case of driver related issues which the devs cannot reproduce due
> to lack of hardware. If there are no betas which would allow us to do such
> "experiments" we would not do it as the risk is too high, but that also
> means that a large user group would lack an important improvement. We never
> push such changes in the minor releases as they are not tested at all prior
> to the release.

I see your point, wouldn't the "less Beta/RC but more weekly 'unofficial' 
releases" suggestion help you even more?

> I think that the 4.11 cycle was not optimal, but I think it is because it
> overlapps with Christmas and New Year. 

Why was that suboptimal? We've been having that since all the 4.x.odd releases

Cheers,
  Albert

> Reducing the number of betas is
> therefore fixing the wrong part of the schedule.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin