On Friday 26 April 2013 15.27.40 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi, > > <tldr> > Let's make 4.11 the last feature release for platform and workspace in the 4 > series, make 4.11 a long term maintainance release. > </tldr> > > I would like to propose the following for our release planning in the next > year: > > - Make 4.11 Platform and Workspaces a long-term maintainance release with > bugfix updates for two years > > - After 4.11.0, shift feature development to Frameworks 5 and Plasma > Workspaces 2, in order to not delay this forever > > - Applications are not part of this proposal, we'd need feedback from App > module maintainers. It doesn't need to be decided along with this proposal > though. For now, App developers should be encouraged to make releases on > top of 4.x, and jump onto KF5 "when it's ready" > > Reasons: > * This strategy will cement our leading role as desktop environment > * It eases transition to KF5/PW2 by giving ample room to keep the old > version * It communicates that we do not abandon SC4, but actively support > it * It makes downstreams happy, particularly those with long term releases > as they will have a version with multiple years of bug fixes to focus on * > kdelibs 4.x is already feature frozen, we plan to do the same for Plasma > after 4.11 and concentrate on PW2 then > > How this will look like exactly: > > 4.11 gets out as normal, but with the clear message: This is going to > maintained for a longer period of 2 years: If you're doing an Enterprise > distro, this one is the one you want > > > Of course, this being a proposal, its main purpose is to sollicit feedback, > but I'd also move towards a solution, as far as this describes common ground > among all stakeholders. > > > What do you think?
A solid +1 with the disclamer that we should keep a fixed release schedule as far as dates are concerned when the time for releasing different parts in different version. /Regards Torgny _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team