El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 20:40:59, Heinz Wiesinger va escriure: > On Monday 08 July 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > > Now that kde-workspace and kdelibs are going to be frozen (which in theory > > means less work for everybody) I'd like to propose a new release schedule > > to be applied starting with 4.12. > > IMHO that's a bit hasty. There was previous talk about Frameworks, > Workspaces and Applications (potentially) having a different release > schedule. I don't think anything has been really talked about there yet, > but that's something that would definitely play into the current proposal. > No matter the outcome of the discussion, you'd want to avoid changing > release processes twice within a short period of time, and with releases of > KF5 and PW2 sometime next year (assumption) that would certainly be a thing > to keep in mind. > > > Basically the idea is to cut testing time and compensate it by keeping > > master always in a "releaseable" state, now that two major components are > > frozen it looks like it is a good time to get used to it. > > The philosophy is nice, but it's hardly enforcable. So it's something > everyone needs to adhere to voluntarily and that may take some convincing, > especially when it involves changing current (working) practices. 3 months > seems rather ambitious there.
The "hardly enforcable" argument is a non-argument, our current policies as enforcable as the ones Alex is proposing. Cheers, Albert > > > Before sending this email I have checked with distro people, i18n people, > > other developers and almost all of them seemed to either like or be > > neutral > > about it (only one exception :p) so I hope that the proposal is not a > > complete disaster. > > Any reason not to CC kde-packager or kde-release-team? IMHO they'd be > primary audiences for this. > > Grs, > Heinz
