On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 10:03:43 PM CET tetr...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Hi everyone, > > At first glance the proposed release schedule by Martin seems very > dense, but Chakra should be able to keep up as the Plasma 5 builds do > not take that long. > > The effort and automation required for each Plasma build actually > depends on the changes that are implemented. For a straightforward build > we usually only change the version, but when for example new > dependencies are introduced for new releases, a bit of manual effort is > required to identify them and include them in our scripts.
That should not be a problem. New dependencies cannot be added to a bug fix release. > > What will happen to quick bugfix releases? Like when we have 5.5.1.1 > for some packages when a critical bug is found very soon after the > release. With releases being so close in the hypothetical scheme this > might not be needed. Depends. I had seen bugs which needed immediate attention. So I wouldn't say "won't be needed" generally. > > What I think would really help to decide on how to proceed would be to > take into account the related statistics to better understand how much > of a problem this is. The number of plasma packages that actually change > between releases could be identified, as well as how many of these > changes are really significant ones that need to roll out to users asap. > If it's not too much trouble, we could for example track the severity of > the bugs that close for each release, or request from developers to > point out new commits that they find very important in each release. I think this is a bad idea. See my reply to Eric's thread on why I consider pointing out individual patches is dangerous to the quality of the overall product. Please consider our releases as something atomic and that goes over all modules. > > The issue comes down to how many distributions can cope with this. If in > the end most distros end up skipping releases, this release schedule > doesn't make much meaning. Exactly, that's why I ask. Cheers Martin > > Regards, > Neofytos Kolokotronis (tetris4 from Chakra), > -long time lurker, happy to be commenting for the first time here-
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