El Dilluns, 19 d'agost de 2013, a les 21:18:52, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure: > On Monday, August 19, 2013 16:52:28 Martin Graesslin wrote: > > which would be more likely May/June if we stick to five month cycle. Note: > > one of the outcomes of the "shorter release cycle" BOF at Akademy was that > > we might re-evaluate the situation after the 4.11 release. So in external > > communication I would not yet settle for a date because it could be > > anywhere between the three months later as proposed by Alex and return to > > six months as it used to be. > > imho, that’s fine. we can say we are planning 4.13 for August 2014, and if > we end up changing our mind we can announce that later as a clarification. > > we really don’t know if there will be shorter cycles after 4.11, so the > default expectation is to keep doing releases every six months. until we > know otherwise, that is the default plan.
Well, we almost do know for 4.12. I sent a proposal for it to be released mid- december and noone disagreed, so i guess i could make it oficial, that's already not 6 months, so if you ask me, it seems quite unlikely we'll do august for 4.13 as it'll be a 8 month release cycle. > by saying that we currently plan on 4.13 in august 2014 we communicate to > the outside world that we have a roadmap. this is quite true, as can be > seen by the amount of thought going in this exact topic by so many people > from so many different angles (promo, apps, workspaces ...) > > so my recommendation is to go with Jos’ outline and if we change course for > 4.12/4.13 announce that then. > > really the worst thing we can do for external confidence is say “we don’t > know”, because that translates externally to “we aren’t planning”. but we > are planning. so we do know. and that’s what we need to communicate. But the truth is that we don't know when 4.13 will be released. There will be a 4.13? Most probably. Will it be in 2014? For sure Which month? Noone knows, you can probably guess it'll be between Q2 and Q3 since Q1 would mean <= 3 months of development and Q4 would mean >= 10 months. If you want to write a month, fine, do it, but don't say the release team blessed it, because all the answers in this list have been "we don't know". Cheers, Albert _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
