El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 15:14:07, Luigi Toscano va escriure: > On Monday 08 of July 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > > Now that kde-workspace and kdelibs are going to be frozen (which in theory > > means less work for everybody) I'd like to propose a new release schedule > > to be applied starting with 4.12. > > > > Basically the idea is to cut testing time and compensate it by keeping > > master always in a "releaseable" state, now that two major components are > > frozen it looks like it is a good time to get used to it. > > > > You can read all the proposal in: > > http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/ReleasesProposal > > > > Before sending this email I have checked with distro people, i18n people, > > other developers and almost all of them seemed to either like or be > > neutral > > about it (only one exception :p) so I hope that the proposal is not a > > complete disaster. > > If the exception is "i18n", well, I guess that most of i18n people would > tell you that it will be a pain from translation's point of view. It is > true that there is one month before the hard-string freeze and the release, > but there is another month before with the soft string freeze, and usually > the changes tend to be quite limited in that timeframe. Of course with the > new schedule the soft freeze won't be there anymore.
There will also be less features (since there's less time to develop them), so maybe you don't need that much time. > > As its name indicates, it is a proposal, so please be constructive in the > > feedback, we can change as many things as we need. > > From the pure development point of view, imho a shorter release time can be > achieved with many more _automated_ tests, not only unit tests. automated test vs unit test is a technicallity ;-) But agreed, we need more tests and they have to pass. Yes kdepim* people I'm looking at you! Cheers, Albert > > > Shortening the release time by one month or one month and a half would be a > more reasonable target. IMHO. > > Ciao
