On 4/22/24 19:19, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
El dilluns, 22 d’abril del 2024, a les 17:12:46 (CEST), Nate Graham va
escriure:
Now, let's say we make Gear use Plasma's current release schedule by
syncing up the feature releases and adopting the Fibonacci bugfix
releases. If we don't end up changing Plasma's own release schedule then
we already make our promo store more coherent by letting the marketing
team do three big glossy announcements of user-facing products a year,
rather than being stretched thin for 6. Even if we make Plasma go down
to 2 releases a year, then we have two synced Gear+Plasma
"mega-releases" and 2 independent Gear releases--down from 6 to 4. Both
of these options would improve the promo story IMO.
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Moving on, the biggest points of contention I see revolve around
Frameworks. Personally I want to push back a bit on the idea of
developing an app against released frameworks.
I disagree.
In my ideal world, applications should be able to be built against a one year
old frameworks, before the Qt6 port, Okular's minimum requirement was Ubuntu
22.04, which makes sure virtually everyone can contribute to it without having
to build the world.
There's virtually no need in Okular to depend against any new frameworks shiny
feature, the existing features are more than enough.
Cheers,
Albert
This is true for Okular, but we can't guarantee it for other apps.
However I was fortunate enough to be sitting across a table from Volker,
who explained this point to me in a way that my tiny brain was capable
of understanding: :) that having a fast Frameworks release cycle allows
people developing apps with features in Frameworks to not have to live
on master like we do in Plasma.
I'd love to have everywhere in my slide of KDE what Albert has for
Okular, but I there are other barriers to it that we need to overcome.
As a result I'll rescind my idea to slow down Frameworks feature
releases. I do still think Frameworks could benefit from un-branched
bugfix releases a week after the feature releases--after which point
feature development would be open again.
And I still support unifying or aligning the Gear and Plasma release
schedules.
Nate
