thanks a lot for comments!
On 20Jul, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On 2014-07-20 15:01, Kate Lebedeff wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> If I may a small Q
>> Why can't we finish things now - but release them a bit later?
>
>
> We could -- but technology gets obsolete really fast - if we did that, it
> would just end up being a "boring" release ("they come out with a KDE 4.13.x
> thing now even though 4.14 is out? That sucks...").
>
> I think there's a good point to be made for sticking with the original
> release plan (release what we have so we can move on to our 2015.0 plans - or
> we'll end up not getting things done because we've spent too much time on
> 2014.x releases), and there's a good point to be made for doing a later
> release with newer stuff as well (given 2015.0 will almost certainly be KDE
> 5.x based, it would be good to have a solid release with the last KDE 4.x
> release -- which would be 4.14).
>
> Marketing-wise, the point about many people being on vacation at end of July
> is real, but OTOH everyone is thinking of that and not making releases in
> that time frame, so we could get the undivided attention of those staying at
> home.
>
> I don't think there's much of a point in artificially delaying a release that
> is ready now by another month -- people will just see it as an "obsolete
> before it was released" thing, and it'll make people install 2014.0 rather
> than a release with lots of bugfixes since then for another month (possibly
> getting a bad first impression if they happen to run into one of the bugs we
> fixed). (Besides, we're perfectionists - I'm pretty sure we'd still end up
> fixing it even though it's supposed to be done).
>
> ttyl
> bero
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