On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:22:20 Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela <nos...@vuorela.dk> wrote: > > So. first one. > > Second one > > Release frequency. > > We have a giant quality problem. Distros won't ship a .0 release to real > users (as opposed to testers/power users) and wait until there has been > a couple of bug fix releases. Until we ensure that our .0 releases are > usable I don't see how we can cut down on that. > > Some distros release in a 6 month cycle. Others in a 8. and ones even in > longer cycles. Going for anything shorter than 6 months will ensure that > distros are going to skip releases. why work with releases that they > aren't going to ship to users anyways? Not by distributions working that way I guess.
Part of the reasons why I want this release schedule is exactly for these distros. Let me explain. Right now distributions pick the release they see fit and make a distro with it. It might be .0, .2 or .5. If a distribution in their right decide to pick a .5 release wile a .0 is already out there (this already happened), what is happening here is that a HUGE release with a LOT of changes won't even get to the users of that distribution at least for another distribution cycle. This usually happens with distributions that have a release cycle of 9 months. With having releases every 3 months we make the amount of features smaller and more often so distributions will always be able to pick a more updated release than with the current situation. > And given there need to be some stabilization and integration work, I'm > sure skipping releases would be the default for most distros. Hopefully > distros can coordinate and at least skip the same. Mostly leading to the > other releases being useless because they only reach very few users. This is already happening, no change here. > And as it currently is, we need the .4 and .5 releases. and .6 and .7 and .8 and .9, we could have a 4.0.200, there is always need of bugfixing releases, question is how many of these point releases are pending of upstream KDE and not downstream distros. To make it clear, I WANT to have .4 and .5 releases, just not made by upstream developers.