Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-07 Thread dE .
On 04/05/12 13:57, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Thursday, 2012-04-05, Duncan wrote: dE . posted on Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:23:16 +0530 as excerpted: So 'feature release' may mean (apart form including absolutely new features) - 1) Restructuring the code (better management). 2) New backend or changed

Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-07 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Saturday, 2012-04-07, dE . wrote: On 04/05/12 13:57, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Thursday, 2012-04-05, Duncan wrote: dE . posted on Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:23:16 +0530 as excerpted: So 'feature release' may mean (apart form including absolutely new features) - 1) Restructuring the code

Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-05 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2012-04-05, Duncan wrote: dE . posted on Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:23:16 +0530 as excerpted: So 'feature release' may mean (apart form including absolutely new features) - 1) Restructuring the code (better management). 2) New backend or changed backend which may increase or

Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-04 Thread dE .
On 04/02/12 17:13, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Monday, 2012-04-02, John Woodhouse wrote: What would be of more interest to many is pure bug fix releases rather than new features. I for instance am running Platform Version 4.6.00 (4.6.0) release 6 That's the first release of the 4.6 series, which

Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-04 Thread Duncan
dE . posted on Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:23:16 +0530 as excerpted: So 'feature release' may mean (apart form including absolutely new features) - 1) Restructuring the code (better management). 2) New backend or changed backend which may increase or decrease bugs. And bug fixes mean fixing

Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-02 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2012-04-02, dE . wrote: Is there any definitive release cycle? Like Debian has stable/unstable/testing etc... branches and has general rules and regulation on what has to be done at what time, regardless of the current release? The general release cycle is 6 months long, i.e. that

Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-02 Thread Duncan
dE . posted on Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:20:20 +0530 as excerpted: Is there any definitive release cycle? Like Debian has stable/unstable/testing etc... branches and has general rules and regulation on what has to be done at what time, regardless of the current release? Or is it that the rules

Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-02 Thread John Woodhouse
What would be of more interest to many is pure bug fix releases rather than new features. I for instance am running  Platform Version 4.6.00 (4.6.0) release 6  AND in real terms am having no problems other than the type ahead at times and the up to 5sec machine freezes. Kmail is functioning

Re: [kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-02 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2012-04-02, John Woodhouse wrote: What would be of more interest to many is pure bug fix releases rather than new features. I for instance am running Platform Version 4.6.00 (4.6.0) release 6 That's the first release of the 4.6 series, which itself is one of the minor

[kde] KDE release cycles?

2012-04-01 Thread dE .
Is there any definitive release cycle? Like Debian has stable/unstable/testing etc... branches and has general rules and regulation on what has to be done at what time, regardless of the current release? Or is it that the rules and regulations change as per the release?