Advance FW 6.30? (Was: Re: Draft: Release schedules for Plasma 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9)

[Nicolas Fella]

On 3/3/26 12:31 PM, Martin Riethmayer wrote:
> Hello Release-Team,
>
> following up Davids mail to plasma-devel (see below): There's an idea 
> to release Plasma 6.8 on KDEs 30th birthday (i.e. release 6.8.0 on 
> October 14th). [1]
>
> This would shift dates slightly for all versions before (soft freeze, 
> betas and tar-creation) and would result in Plasma 6.8 missing the 
> release of FW 6.30 by one day (if normal timings are kept).
>
> Would it be possible to advance the release of FW 6.30 by 1-2 days? 
> I.e. 6.30 would be released on September 9th or 10th instead of 
> September 11th.
>
> Other alternatives I can see (there may be more, of course):
> - use FW 6.29 for Plasma 6.8
> - delay Plasma 6.7.90 by 2 days (it would shorten the beta period for 
> beta 1, presumably, by those 2 days)
>
> Best regards
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://invent.kde.org/teams/promo/30th-anniversary/-/work_items/7
>
> Am 02.03.26 um 10:08 schrieb David Redondo:
>> Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2026, 16:13 schrieb Martin Riethmayer:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> [....]
>>
>>>
>>> +++++ [Plasma 6.8.] +++++
>>> 6.7.80        2026-09-03
>>> 6.7.90        2026-09-17 [Note5]
>>> 6.7.91        2026-10-01
>>> TAR        2026-10-15
>>> 6.8.0        2026-10-20
>>> 6.8.1        2026-10-27
>>> 6.8.2        2026-11-03
>>> 6.8.3        2026-11-17
>>> 6.8.4        2026-12-08
>>> 6.8.5        2027-01-12
>>> 6.8.6        2027-03-16 [Note6]
>>>
>> as all of you know this year is the 30th anniversary of KDE. Like we 
>> did for
>> 5.23 and the 25th anniversary let's make 6.8 the 30th anniversary 
>> edition.
>> We released 5.23 on the day of the anniversary, I propose we do the 
>> same for
>> 6.8. See also: https://invent.kde.org/teams/promo/30th-anniversary/-/
>> work_items/7
>> I propose:
>> Shift the release dates by a week so 6.8.0 releases on the 14th of 
>> October.
>> The patch and beta releases could keep their day of the week. In detail:
>>
>>   +++++ [Plasma 6.8.] +++++
>>   6.7.80        2026-08-27
>>   6.7.90        2026-09-10 ¹
>>   6.7.91        2026-09-24
>>   TAR        2026-10-08
>>   6.8.0        2026-10-14
>>   6.8.1        2026-10-20
>>   6.8.2        2026-10-27
>>   6.8.3        2026-11-10
>>   6.8.4        2026-12-01
>>   6.8.5        2027-01-05
>>   6.8.6        2027-03-02
>>
>> ¹ this means we would miss the proposed frameworks released on the 
>> 11th, maybe
>> delay or ask Nicolas to release frameworks a bit earlier?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David 

Hi,

we can do that. Should we do it on the same day as the Plasma beta?