> > As distribution package maintainers, we would like Plasma developers to > slightly alter the release schedule to align releases with a more > distribution friendly cycle. You could consider shortening one release > cycle (and then keep the 6 month schedule) to align releases. >
We have in the past shuffled things slightly to line up things up with distros on request, particularly LTS releases. We can certainly explore that on a one-off basis. >With this schedule in place, we would also benefit from more beta releases over a slightly longer period. They would be packaged into the beta and RC releases of those distributions thus enabling more pre-release testing. We did have 6 month release cycles in the past. The rationale for moving at the time was twofold: - people rushed in changes towards the feature freeze as otherwise it would be aages till their changes reached users - the more changes we have in a release, the more testing and inevitable regression fixes we need to do, spreading that out should result in things being more stable Initially we did every 3 months (which arguably still aligns) then it slowly slipped to 4. My personal impression is that releases have gotten better as a result of those changes, so I'm hesitant about reverting that decision. David >