Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-17 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimecres, 17 de juliol de 2013, a les 19:34:17, Scott Kitterman va escriure: > On Thursday, July 18, 2013 01:19:12 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dimecres, 17 de juliol de 2013, a les 07:37:16, Luca Beltrame va > > escriure: > > > Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > > Just as a reminder, we hav

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, July 18, 2013 01:19:12 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dimecres, 17 de juliol de 2013, a les 07:37:16, Luca Beltrame va escriure: > > Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > Just as a reminder, we have the Release Team BOF tomorrow July 17 at > > > 10:15 > > > at Room A2 > > > > Would it be

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-17 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimecres, 17 de juliol de 2013, a les 07:37:16, Luca Beltrame va escriure: > Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > Just as a reminder, we have the Release Team BOF tomorrow July 17 at 10:15 > > at Room A2 > > Would it be possible to post the outcome of the discussion here? It would be > very helpful (as

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-17 Thread Luca Beltrame
Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Just as a reminder, we have the Release Team BOF tomorrow July 17 at 10:15 > at Room A2 Would it be possible to post the outcome of the discussion here? It would be very helpful (as unfortunately I'm not in Bilbao). -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supp

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-16 Thread Scott Kitterman
I wish I was there. Scott K Albert Astals Cid wrote: >Just as a reminder, we have the Release Team BOF tomorrow July 17 at >10:15 at >Room A2 > >Cheers, > Albert > >El Dimarts, 16 de juliol de 2013, a les 14:38:47, Scott Kitterman va >escriure: >> On Monday, July 15, 2013 09:00:27 PM Luca Bel

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-16 Thread Albert Astals Cid
Just as a reminder, we have the Release Team BOF tomorrow July 17 at 10:15 at Room A2 Cheers, Albert El Dimarts, 16 de juliol de 2013, a les 14:38:47, Scott Kitterman va escriure: > On Monday, July 15, 2013 09:00:27 PM Luca Beltrame wrote: > > Àlex Fiestas wrote: > > > Now that kde-workspace a

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-16 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 15, 2013 09:00:27 PM Luca Beltrame wrote: > 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. > > Replying to the mes

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-16 Thread Ben
On 07/15/2013 05:54 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: We are experimenting with the idea of a “long term release” version with kde- workspace. If 4.11 gets widely used, deployed and stabalized (as we hope it will) then blessing specific releases for extended #s of releases may be a good approach. Right

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-16 Thread Luca Beltrame
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. Replying to the message starting the thread because I forgot something important at lea

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-16 Thread Luigi Toscano
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > translations .. this will require some time spent with the translation > maintainers to figure out what will work well for those efforts. The risk here is that when branches which have been in preparation for a long time are merged, or simply many branches are merged, the a

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, July 15, 2013 11:51:38 Scott Kitterman wrote: > 30 of the 42 weeks are spent in some kind of freeze state. Without process > changes to get from "feature complete" to "released" there's no way to get > to a three month cycle. those of us in favour of a shorter development cycle are als

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, July 15, 2013 14:16:01 Luca Beltrame wrote: > Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > "we should try to recruit more people from the user community of > > downstream distributions who have the skills necessary to merge patches > > and test. some distributions do this already.” > > The reason I menti

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Luca Beltrame
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > "we should try to recruit more people from the user community of > downstream distributions who have the skills necessary to merge patches > and test. some distributions do this already.” The reason I mentioned "issues" with this approach originally originate from (perha

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 15, 2013 02:48:01 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Diumenge, 14 de juliol de 2013, a les 04:19:52, Inge Wallin va escriure: > > I think keeping 6 months is a good > > figure to ensure both reasonable turn-around *and* actual bugfixes of > > versions being used in the real world. >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 15 de juliol de 2013, a les 09:58:01, Cristian Tibirna va escriure: > Although Inge supposedly bases his analysis on extrapolation and (very) wise > guessing, and despite the obvious lack of hard data (1), I will put my > support behind Inge's view. > > (1) (sadly including here our b

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Cristian Tibirna
Although Inge supposedly bases his analysis on extrapolation and (very) wise guessing, and despite the obvious lack of hard data (1), I will put my support behind Inge's view. (1) (sadly including here our blatant dissing of, e.g., 527 severe bug reports on nepomuk... that ask for stability an

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Diumenge, 14 de juliol de 2013, a les 04:19:52, Inge Wallin va escriure: > I think keeping 6 months is a good > figure to ensure both reasonable turn-around *and* actual bugfixes of > versions being used in the real world. It may be a reasonable turn-around for some users, but it is also not d

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, July 14, 2013 04:19:52 Inge Wallin wrote: > Without having any scientific proof, I believe that there are 2 main > categories of users: > 1. Those generally satisfied who want stability > 2. Those who long for new updates all the time. Regardless of whether someone is a Category 1 or

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 09:50:21 Luca Beltrame wrote: > Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > 1. packagers seem to feel that if upstream doesn’t do the actual commit to > > the upstream repository, then upstream is not maintaining their software > > To be honest, that's not always true. Good :) > At leas

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-14, Inge Wallin wrote: > Here are some assumptions. Correct me if they are wrong: > - KDE developers support the last relesed and *maybe* the second to last > release with bugfixes. > - Distributions have a release cycle of 6 months or longer. > - Distributions pick their contents 2

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 14:05:13 Jaime Torres Amate wrote: > How would the release schedule ( > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Release_Schedule) be in a 3 or > 4 mounths release? 1 month for new features, 2 or 3 for bugfixing, > translating, language bindings? Or like linux kernel,

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, July 14, 2013 15:23:46 David Faure wrote: > On Friday 12 July 2013 17:07:13 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > we ought to think of ways to make master more stable. > > Exactly. And porting master to qt5/frameworks definitely doesn't make it > more stable, so let's not do that. > > (Yes, I'm m

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Ben
On 07/13/2013 10:19 PM, Inge Wallin wrote: Without having any scientific proof, I believe that there are 2 main categories of users: 1. Those generally satisfied who want stability 2. Those who long for new updates all the time. My feeling is that the first category is the silent majority an

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-14 Thread Inge Wallin
On Monday, July 08, 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 compe

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-14 Thread David Faure
On Friday 12 July 2013 17:07:13 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > we ought to think of ways to make master more stable. Exactly. And porting master to qt5/frameworks definitely doesn't make it more stable, so let's not do that. (Yes, I'm mixing both topics, because I see contradictory arguments from the

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-13 Thread Jaime Torres Amate
How would the release schedule ( http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Release_Schedule) be in a 3 or 4 mounths release? 1 month for new features, 2 or 3 for bugfixing, translating, language bindings? Or like linux kernel, allways develop new features in other branches, and 1 month to me

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-13 Thread Luca Beltrame
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > 1. packagers seem to feel that if upstream doesn’t do the actual commit to > the upstream repository, then upstream is not maintaining their software To be honest, that's not always true. At least the major distributions and a few of the minors have packagers that hold KD

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, July 12, 2013 05:27:53 PM Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 14:23:24 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > I've mentioned before in this thread, we're going to look into > > providing tip of the stable branch packages that people can test so that > > there is more testing before t

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
> On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 07:44:35 PM Martin Graesslin wrote: > > We need to get away from "it's not stable enough" to "it's stable". The > > only way is to increase the testing and make everything we can do to have > > an awesome and rocking .0. I think Alex approach is the right one. > > Redu

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:28:10 Scott Kitterman wrote: > This isn't the first time upstream KDE developers have suggested offloading > the boring upstream maintenance work to distributions. do you think it’s because it is boring? no. it’s because if when this work is put on the shoulders of

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 17:16:55 Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2013-07-10, Àlex Fiestas wrote: > > I can't fight with distros, and I don't want to fight with them. If > > distros > > need .5 .6 and .200 so be it, just they will have to do them themselves > > (and I hope we can make the process smoo

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, July 12, 2013 10:12:41 Andras Mantia wrote: > On Thursday, July 11, 2013 06:53:51 PM andrea diamantini wrote: > > What about a single official development branch? > > Just use two branches: > > - master branch (stable) > > - kdevel branch (devel) > > The natural question to come is: why

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Michael Jansen
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 01:06:59 PM Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:53:50 Philip Muskovac wrote: > > On Monday 08 July 2013 18:59:12 Michael Pyne wrote: > > > On Mon, July 8, 2013 17:45:10 Philip Muskovac wrote: > > > > What would at least make my life easier here would be

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Luca Beltrame
Àlex Fiestas wrote: > already out there (this already happened), what is happening here is that > a HUGE release with a LOT of changes won't even get to the users of that > distribution at least for another distribution cycle. This usually happens Don't forget that at least the bigger distros off

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Luca Beltrame
henry miller wrote: > latest, but those will never get beyond a .3 release. Distributions that > want more stability can work together to submit patches to the long term Bear in mind that not all distros have packagers with coding skills. Also, maintenance of patches downstream can be problemat

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:53:50 Philip Muskovac wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2013 18:59:12 Michael Pyne wrote: > > On Mon, July 8, 2013 17:45:10 Philip Muskovac wrote: > > > What would at least make my life easier here would be a way to easily > > > get a > > > list of all patches that were applie

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-12 Thread Andras Mantia
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 06:53:51 PM andrea diamantini wrote: > What about a single official development branch? > Just use two branches: > - master branch (stable) > - kdevel branch (devel) The natural question to come is: why isn't master the devel branch? :) Ok, let me reformulate again: did

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-11 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday 11 July 2013, andrea diamantini wrote: > What about a single official development branch? > Just use two branches: > - master branch (stable) > - kdevel branch (devel) > You develop wherever you like and push things on "kdevel" branch when > ready. If you like the "one branch approach",

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-11 Thread henry miller
"Àlex Fiestas" wrote: >On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:22:20 Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> > So. first one. >> >> Second one >> >> Release frequency. >> >> We have a giant quality problem. Distros won't ship a .0 release to >real >> users (as opposed to testers/po

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-11 Thread andrea diamantini
What about a single official development branch? Just use two branches: - master branch (stable) - kdevel branch (devel) You develop wherever you like and push things on "kdevel" branch when ready. If you like the "one branch approach", you devel things directly in kdevel branch. People knows there

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-11 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Le mercredi 10 juillet 2013 17:55:42 Àlex Fiestas a écrit : > On Tuesday 09 July 2013 16:12:35 Andras Mantia wrote: > > Two point I want to mention: > > 1) working in a branch for kdepim is quite painful, as you need actually > > work on branches of 3 (or sometimes 4) modules: kdepimlibs, > > kdepi

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 07:44:35 PM Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Wednesday 10 July 2013 17:13:11 Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2013-07-10, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > >=3D=3D On scheduling mainenance releases > > > > > > in a longer 4 month cycle, i=E2=80=99d cut that to 8 weeks and keep jus= > > >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Wednesday 10 July 2013 17:13:11 Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2013-07-10, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >=3D=3D On scheduling mainenance releases > > > > in a longer 4 month cycle, i=E2=80=99d cut that to 8 weeks and keep jus= > > t the one=20 > > update. > > > > this would ease the burdon on our releas

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Luigi Toscano
On Wednesday 10 of July 2013 19:17:37 Luigi Toscano wrote: > The more you go down in the stack, the more you need stability, and no, it's > not true that with short release time the features will be smaller with > less bugs, because a feature could have been in development for a long > time, so it'

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-10, Àlex Fiestas wrote: > I can't fight with distros, and I don't want to fight with them. If distros > need .5 .6 and .200 so be it, just they will have to do them themselves (and > I > hope we can make the process smooth so they can actually do it). > > As has been said in this thr

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Luigi Toscano
On Wednesday 10 of July 2013 17:43:38 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2013 21:57:51 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Sven Brauch wrote: > > > I think Nuno's point is very interesting and worth thinking about. To > > > stick with the firefox example, since they started

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Quarta, 10 de Julho de 2013 17:43:38 você escreveu: > On Tuesday 09 July 2013 21:57:51 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Sven Brauch wrote: > > > I think Nuno's point is very interesting and worth thinking about. To > > > stick with the firefox example, since they started rel

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-10, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >=3D=3D On scheduling mainenance releases > > in a longer 4 month cycle, i=E2=80=99d cut that to 8 weeks and keep jus= > t the one=20 > update. > > this would ease the burdon on our release team (and by extension packag= > ers)=20 > while also giving developer

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 06:54:06 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: > On Wednesday 10 July 2013 18:26:55 you wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 of July 2013 18:08:04 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > > > On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:22:20 Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > > So. first one.

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Quarta, 10 de Julho de 2013 13:18:57 Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > == On branding and visual presentation > > some have noted that faster release cycles would make it hard to implement > branding updates and artwork refreshes such as wallpapers. the answer to > that is simple: these efforts must

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 10 July 2013 18:26:55 you wrote: > On Wednesday 10 of July 2013 18:08:04 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:22:20 Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > So. first one. > > > > > > Second one > > > > > > Release frequency. > > > > > >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 06:08:04 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: > On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:22:20 Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > So. first one. > > > > Second one > > > > Release frequency. > > > > We have a giant quality problem. Distros won't ship a .0 release

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Luigi Toscano
On Wednesday 10 of July 2013 18:08:04 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:22:20 Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > So. first one. > > > > Second one > > > > Release frequency. > > > > We have a giant quality problem. Distros won't ship a .0 release t

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 10 July 2013 13:22:20 Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > So. first one. > > Second one > > Release frequency. > > We have a giant quality problem. Distros won't ship a .0 release to real > users (as opposed to testers/power users) and wait until there has

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 21:15:54 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2013 09:36:00 andrea diamantini wrote: > > My idea about this concerns the way we let other people know aboout > > new features. I usually read our feature plan (e.g. > > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Feature_Pl

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 16:12:35 Andras Mantia wrote: > Two point I want to mention: > 1) working in a branch for kdepim is quite painful, as you need actually > work on branches of 3 (or sometimes 4) modules: kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, > kdepim (and akonadi). Keep them up-to-date, merge them at t

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 21:57:51 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Sven Brauch wrote: > > I think Nuno's point is very interesting and worth thinking about. To > > stick with the firefox example, since they started releasing every > > ortography fix in the settings dialog as a ne

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-09, Sune Vuorela wrote: > So. first one. Second one Release frequency. We have a giant quality problem. Distros won't ship a .0 release to real users (as opposed to testers/power users) and wait until there has been a couple of bug fix releases. Until we ensure that our .0 releases a

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-10 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, July 8, 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > You can read all the proposal in: > http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/ReleasesProposal Neat ... some thoughts: == On branching this will be much easier for those who develop features in branches rather than use master as a big developer fre

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Philip Muskovac
On Monday 08 July 2013 18:59:12 Michael Pyne wrote: > On Mon, July 8, 2013 17:45:10 Philip Muskovac wrote: > > What would at least make my life easier here would be a way to easily get a > > list of all patches that were applied to a stable release (esp. when someone > > bothers to backport a fix a

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Andras Mantia wrote: > Hi, > > [...] (just replying at some point) > > > Two point I want to mention: > 1) working in a branch for kdepim is quite painful, as you need actually > work on branches of 3 (or sometimes 4) modules: kdepimlibs, > kdepim-runtime, kdepim (and ak

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Sven Brauch wrote: > I think Nuno's point is very interesting and worth thinking about. To > stick with the firefox example, since they started releasing every > ortography fix in the settings dialog as a new major version, I think > attention in the media to their releases

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 09:36:00 andrea diamantini wrote: > My idea about this concerns the way we let other people know aboout > new features. I usually read our feature plan (e.g. > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Feature_Plan). > I think we could add one general page per project, sim

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 16:12:35 Andras Mantia wrote: > Hi, > > [...] (just replying at some point) > > > Two point I want to mention: > 1) working in a branch for kdepim is quite painful, as you need actually > work on branches of 3 (or sometimes 4) modules: kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, > kdepim

Re: Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 16:12:35 Andras Mantia wrote: > I also find the motivation somewhat contradictory. Yes, you want to provide > new features faster, but by cutting down testing time. *Are you sure?* Well here we have to ask whether the current testing procedure works. Since the beta got rele

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-08, Àlex Fiestas wrote: I'm going to provide a handful of replies, each dealing with different aspects of this - hopefully I will post them all over the next couple of days. I will try to keep them short. So. first one. > Basically the idea is to cut testing time and compensate it by

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Andras Mantia
Hi, [...] (just replying at some point) Two point I want to mention: 1) working in a branch for kdepim is quite painful, as you need actually work on branches of 3 (or sometimes 4) modules: kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, kdepim (and akonadi). Keep them up-to-date, merge them at the right point, e

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Vishesh Handa
>From my point of view, 3 month releases are going to actually increase quality. At least in Nepomuk. The Nepomuk developers (me included) have often merged feature branches right before the feature freeze even if the branch has some problems. No one wants to wait 8 months (2 months for the curren

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 20:40:59 Heinz Wiesinger wrote: > Any reason not to CC kde-packager or kde-release-team? IMHO they'd be > primary audiences for this. kde-packagers is a private mailist, I'm not sure how to handle it. kde-release-team, I assumed they were in kde-core-devel as well, but you

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On Monday 08 July 2013 23:08:29 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2013 22:14:28 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > On Monday 08 July 2013 16:26:00 laurent Montel wrote: > > > Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 16:11:05 Frank Reininghaus a écrit : > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > 2013/7/8 Àlex Fiestas: > > > > > Now

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread andrea diamantini
My idea about this concerns the way we let other people know aboout new features. I usually read our feature plan (e.g. http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Feature_Plan). I think we could add one general page per project, similar to that one, listing: - the feature - the branch where it is

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 02:02:48 AM Aleix Pol wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, 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 w

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Aleix Pol
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, 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 comp

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Pyne
On Mon, July 8, 2013 17:45:10 Philip Muskovac wrote: > What would at least make my life easier here would be a way to easily get a > list of all patches that were applied to a stable release (esp. when someone > bothers to backport a fix after the last point release is out). > The only way to do th

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Sven Brauch
I think Nuno's point is very interesting and worth thinking about. To stick with the firefox example, since they started releasing every ortography fix in the settings dialog as a new major version, I think attention in the media to their releases has declined a lot -- nobody cares any more that a

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Monday 08 July 2013 22:14:28 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2013 16:26:00 laurent Montel wrote: > > Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 16:11:05 Frank Reininghaus a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > > > 2013/7/8 Àlex Fiestas: > > > > Now that kde-workspace and kdelibs are going to be frozen (which > >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On Monday 08 July 2013 16:26:00 laurent Montel wrote: > Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 16:11:05 Frank Reininghaus a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > 2013/7/8 Àlex Fiestas: > > > Now that kde-workspace and kdelibs are going to be frozen (which in > > > theory > > > means less work for everybody) I'd like to propos

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 21:54:02 Albert Astals Cid escreveu: > El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 20:03:14, Nuno Pinheiro va escriure: > > A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 20:58:42 Albert Astals Cid escreveu: > > > El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 19:32:13, Nuno Pinheiro va > > escriu

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 20:40:59, Heinz Wiesinger va escriure: > On Monday 08 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

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 20:03:14, Nuno Pinheiro va escriure: > A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 20:58:42 Albert Astals Cid escreveu: > > El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 19:32:13, Nuno Pinheiro va escriure: > > > A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas escreveu: > > >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Philip Muskovac
On Monday 08 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 compens

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Heinz Wiesinger
On Monday 08 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. IMHO that's a bit hasty. There was previous talk about Fr

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 20:58:42 Albert Astals Cid escreveu: > El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 19:32:13, Nuno Pinheiro va escriure: > > A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas escreveu: > > > Now that kde-workspace and kdelibs are going to be frozen (which in > > > theory >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 19:32:13, Nuno Pinheiro va escriure: > A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas escreveu: > > 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 >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 20:32:57 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Montag, 8. Juli 2013 20:30:39 CEST, Martin Graesslin wrote: > > The concept of integration branches is a solution to this problem > > +1 > > They do not only rise testing (beyond your own) but also and especially > integrated testing (aga

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Segunda, 8 de Julho de 2013 15:04:40 Àlex Fiestas escreveu: > 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 a

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 8. Juli 2013 20:30:39 CEST, Martin Graesslin wrote: The concept of integration branches is a solution to this problem +1 They do not only rise testing (beyond your own) but also and especially integrated testing (against feature clashes where A xor B is good and A & B miserably f

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 8. Juli 2013 20:09:47 CEST, laurent Montel wrote: Yes I finished it 2 days ago, but started 2 months ago. So it was bug fixing, I didn’t create new feature 2 days ago. And I had 6 months to develop it, so think when there is 3 months to do it. Hein? And if it took you 10 years or

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Monday 08 July 2013 20:06:51 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 14:03:19, Scott Kitterman va escriure: > > Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > >El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 11:25:42, Scott Kitterman va > > > > > >escriure: > > >> On Monday, July 08, 2013 04:59

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread laurent Montel
Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 19:55:46 Albert Astals Cid a écrit : > El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 15:45:13, laurent Montel va escriure: > > Hi, > > As you know I work a lot on kdepim (but you forgot to ask me if it was a > > good idea or I didn’t receive mail... :) ) > > > > Ok kdelibs and kde

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 14:03:19, Scott Kitterman va escriure: > Albert Astals Cid wrote: > >El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 11:25:42, Scott Kitterman va > > > >escriure: > >> On Monday, July 08, 2013 04:59:50 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: > >> > On Monday 08 July 2013 10:40:21 Scot

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
Albert Astals Cid wrote: >El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 11:25:42, Scott Kitterman va >escriure: >> On Monday, July 08, 2013 04:59:50 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: >> > On Monday 08 July 2013 10:40:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: >> > > We've already experienced having some parts of the SC skip >rele

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 11:25:42, Scott Kitterman va escriure: > On Monday, July 08, 2013 04:59:50 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: > > On Monday 08 July 2013 10:40:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > We've already experienced having some parts of the SC skip releases and > > > it > > > was a real

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 15:45:13, laurent Montel va escriure: > Hi, > As you know I work a lot on kdepim (but you forgot to ask me if it was a > good idea or I didn’t receive mail... :) ) > > Ok kdelibs and kde-workspace is frozen until KDE SC5 so less work for you > for example. >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
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

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Luigi Toscano
On Monday 08 of July 2013 18:09:44 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2013 17:45:10 Philip Muskovac wrote: > > I understand that we can have additional point releases if people still > > find issues that need to be fixed, but with so many short release cycles > > I expect that the attention fo

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 17:45:10 Philip Muskovac wrote: > Hi, > > With my Kubuntu Developer Hat on, one concern I have is the support > timeframe for the planned 4.13 release. Kubuntu 14.04, planned to be > released in April 2014 will be a Long Term Support release meaning we'll > have to care abou

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 08, 2013 04:59:50 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2013 10:40:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > We've already experienced having some parts of the SC skip releases and it > > was a real problem from a distribution perspective. Please, let's not do > > it again. > > KDE-PIM w

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 10:40:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: > We've already experienced having some parts of the SC skip releases and it > was a real problem from a distribution perspective. Please, let's not do > it again. KDE-PIM will be released, just not with the features of those working with a 6

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-08 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 16:38:02 you wrote: > Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 16:19:02 Àlex Fiestas a écrit : > > I did pasted the link in #kontact and #akonadi a couple of times before > > sending this email :p > > I never saw it. > And paste on irc is not speak with guy which works several project. Sure,

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