El dissabte, 10 de juliol de 2021, a les 1:14:38 (CEST), Friedrich W. H. Kossebau va escriure: > Hi, > > TL;DR Let's document the rough date for branching in the Gear schedule, so > it's less a surprise and can be planned with. > > > Other than Plasma and KDE Frameworks, with KDE Gear the branching on a new > main release does not happen the same day as the Beta tagging, but some time > before, given the amount of work involved with the big amount of repos which > needs a bigger time window, where those doing the work cannot easily be sure > to be able to do that on a certain day when the schedule is planned and > agreed > on months/weeks before. > > Right now the schedule simply omits any mention of the branching (cmp. e.g. > https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_21.08_Schedule). And I might not > be the only one who is caught by surprise every time :) because one forgot > what happened 3 months before and also mixes things up with how Plasma & KF > do > it. > And as by tendency one usually has some MRs around which should get in before > feature freeze setting in, the branching can get in the way, despite the > information being given post-branching usually by email and blog post > (E_NOTREADMLANDPLANETINTIME). > > As Albert and Heiko, as just discussed on irc, think they should be able to > at > least commit to planning the branching between dependency freeze and Beta > tagging, I hereby propose to have the rough branching date officially > documented in the schedule from now on.
Would you be able to come up with a wording you'd like in addition to all the stuff we have in https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_21.08_Schedule ? Cheers, Albert > > Cheers > Friedrich > > >
