On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Àlex Fiestas wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2013 20:35:22 Luca Beltrame wrote: > > (apologies for breaking your threading, but I'm not subscribed to k-c-d; > > in fact, please CC me with replies, thanks!) > > > > Currently, the people working on openSUSE packages are against the > > proposal. A detailed explanation follows. > > > > First and foremost, the KDE packaging in openSUSE is almost completely > > community driven. This means that most of the work is done by volounteers > > which handle what they can in their (limited) time. Faster releases may > > mean worse packaging and increased maintenance (and I think this is also > > an issue w/most non rolling distros). > > Well, KDE is also ran by volunteers doing what they can in their limited > time. If we can achieve 3 month releases, meaning developing features, > promo, i18n, etc I'm sure you can package it as well.
right now, we can only assume that we (KDE) are able to do this. 3 months is quite short. You don't always have time, then one month has already passed, and there is only one more month left. How about 4 months instead of 3 ? Then it would be 3 releases per year. Alex
