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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: 3.3 release
From:       Stefan Teleman <steleman () nyc ! rr ! com>
Date:       2004-10-12 3:46:54
Message-ID: 200410112346.54167.steleman () nyc ! rr ! com
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On Monday 11 October 2004 23:07, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> I'm very seriously asking to consider doing at least one release
> less per year and increasing the cvs freeze periods/packager
> feedback phase accordingly, so the project can put out releases
> with some longevity

I agree. In Solaris' case, the vast majority of KDE users are 
enterprise/corporate installations. It takes about 3 weeks to build a 
Solaris release, and then about another 2 weeks for the volunteers to 
provide feedback on the new release. The sysadmins in enterprise 
environmnents will patiently wait for the feedback from the 
volunteers and for any release patches before installing a new KDE. 
For 3.3, that would have meant end of September. I don't know if the 
sysadmins (who are in control of these installations and upgrades) 
would be willing to go through another configuration and installation 
less than a month later. I'm afraid that these short release cycles 
end up having the opposite effect than the one intended -- by 
releasing so often, sysadmins/users become reluctant to upgrade.

Just my 0.02.

--Stefan

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Stefan Teleman          'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'
steleman@nyc.rr.com                          -Monty Python

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