On Thursday 30 October 2008, Tom Albers wrote: > > My thinking is that we'll have a 4.1.4, but not according to the regular > > monthly schedule, but sometime later (mid december). > What is the reason for this? We are establishing a track record with a > release each month. I'ld like to have a good reason for deviating from it.
Doing it end of November means that it will conflict with Beta1 schedule of KDE 4.2. It is also based on feedback that I got during the KDE 4.0.x release cycle, when we hit 4.0.4 and 4.0.5, where the comments indicated that 4.0.5 was a too marginal improvement over 4.0.4 to justify a release. In effect, it is a shift of release focus, and that makes sense to me. By the time we hit Beta, we do not primarily release the stable branch anymore. 2 month or maybe even 3 month periods come to my mind. I was disregarding the 2 month schedule before because it would mean a very inconvenient time of the year as release time for 4.1.4 (End of the year holidays). Note that other than doing a time-based schedule for the releasing of the stable branch we could be switching to a feature based schedule (e.g. more than 100 bugs fixed since last released). I do not like that approach personally. Greetings, Dirk _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
