Hi, Currently there is a KDE Plasma every 4 months. You are suggesting to change that to 6 months, is that correct? Niccolò
2020-11-24 16:07 (GMT+01:00), "Timothée Ravier" <trav...@redhat.com> said: > Hi KDE/Plasma developers! > Nowadays, Fedora and Kubuntu make new releases twice a year within a week of > each other, with relatively predictable release schedules. > Unfortunately, new KDE/Plasma releases happen a little bit too late for them > to > be included in those distributions in time for the release. Thus the current > version of KDE/Plamsa in both Fedora and Kubuntu is one release behind (at > least on release day). It may or may not be updated after the release. > For the Fedora KDE SIG, we have an issue about this: > https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/25 > 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. > 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. > All of this would benefit both upstream and downstream: > - More pre-release and just released software testing as users test the new > distribution version directly with the KDE beta and fresh stable releases > - More updated and happy users using the latest release > - Less bugs reported against older releases, more bugs reported before the > final stable releases > What do you think? > Thanks! > Timothée Ravier for the Fedora KDE SIG > -- > Timothée Ravier > Red Hat & Fedora CoreOS Engineer > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</a> > trav...@redhat.com IM: travier >