Re: Observations and personal conclusions on the KDE release process since 4.0

2010-07-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi, On Thursday 01 July 2010 02:37:30 Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Wednesday 30 of June 2010 20:23:18 Simon Edwards wrote: > > The main issues for this cycle, IMHO, have been: > > > > * branches - Things being branched off earlier than expected, or work > > branches being merged later in the proc

Re: Observations and personal conclusions on the KDE release process since 4.0

2010-06-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On June 30, 2010, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > Branching off relatively late (maybe even after minor release, not tagging, > just in any case) would also (hopefully) mean a little shift towards > "maintenance" from "new features" seemingly forcing developers to focus on speaking as an app developer:

Re: Observations and personal conclusions on the KDE release process since 4.0

2010-06-30 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Wednesday 30 of June 2010 20:23:18 Simon Edwards wrote: > The main issues for this cycle, IMHO, have been: > * branches - Things being branched off earlier than expected, or work > branches being merged later in the process make it harder to keep track > of what exactly is going to be in 4.5.

Re: Observations and personal conclusions on the KDE release process since 4.0

2010-06-30 Thread Simon Edwards
Hello, On 06/29/2010 09:52 PM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > Having been a KDE packager for several years now, I've looked at the > releases > of KDE since 4.0.0. I "felt" that the overall KDE release quality has > become > noticeably worse than it was during the 3.x days (during which I was most > act

Re: Observations and personal conclusions on the KDE release process since 4.0

2010-06-30 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Dienstag 29 Juni 2010 schrieb Wulf C. Krueger: > Having been a KDE packager for several years now, I've looked at the > releases of KDE since 4.0.0. I "felt" that the overall KDE release quality > has become noticeably worse than it was during the 3.x days (during which > I was most active).

Re: Observations and personal conclusions on the KDE release process since 4.0

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Albers
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:52:00 +0200, "Wulf C. Krueger" wrote: > Hello! > > Please don't take any of the following personally - it's not meant to > offend > > anyone. Hi, Thanks for the overview, it was a nice read. While you have valid points, some are not. The biggest problem you seem t

Observations and personal conclusions on the KDE release process since 4.0

2010-06-29 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Hello! Please don't take any of the following personally - it's not meant to offend anyone. Having been a KDE packager for several years now, I've looked at the releases of KDE since 4.0.0. I "felt" that the overall KDE release quality has become noticeably worse than it was during the 3.x da