On Wednesday 16 January 2013 14.22.23 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 23:27:53 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > I'd like to propose some changes for 4.11, i'd like everyone to comment > > > > 1) Drop Betas to 1 > > > > It doesn't seem "to me" that having extra betas gives us much more > > > > quality, so my suggestion is to drop Beta 2 and move Beta 1 to happen in > > Beta 2 time (moving also Hard Freeze) which gives us 2 more weeks for > > feature development > > > > 2) Drop RCs to 1 > > > > Same thing, it did not feel to me as that it gave us much, drop > > RC2 > > > > and RC1 one week into the future > > This can only work if the quality effort starts timely (which didn't happen > for 4.10, it only really got into gear for RC1, way too late). > > We need closer collaboration between release-team, quality team and other > parties. Only if we're sure that that process works better, we can think of > decreasing the amount of pre-releases. > > > 3) Increase RC time between tag and packaging > > > > One day between tagging and release is crazy, let's have 5/6 days > > as > > > > we have for the other releases > > Why? > > It's not one day, but "as soon as tarballs are happy", so flexible instead > of "crazy short".
Can we include this in the schedule somehow, like X:th Tagging, Y-Z Release, or something so that everyone is clear on that sometime between Y and Z the release is going to happen. /Regards Torgny _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team