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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 2.2 RELEASE SCHEDULE (proposal) [NOTE: 2.2 != 2.1.1]
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-03 8:48:52
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On Saturday 03 March 2001 01:29, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> The release schedule for KDE 2.1.1 has been discussed the last few days.
> This is a proposal for the next major release _after_ that, better known \
> as KDE 2.2
> 
> Also unavailable from
> http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-2.2-release-plan.html
> 
> KDE 2.2 Release Plan
> ================
> 
> The following is the outline for our KDE 2.2 release schedule.
> 
> The 2.2 release, unlike the 2.1.1 release, will come with new \
> functionality and improvements in many areas of KDE.
> 
> We aim for the following improvements among others:
> * Better printing framework.
> * IMAP support in kmail
> * New koffice release.
> 
> All dates given here are subject to revision, but we will try out best to
> stick to them if possible.
> 
> David Faure is acting as release coordinator for the KDE 2.1.1 and 2.2
> releases
> 
> KDE 2.2 Beta 1
> 
> Thursday March 22
> ==============
> The HEAD branch is temporary frozen : bugfix commits only

Most of the the time I abstain from forcefully commenting on release \
schedules.  Well, actually I did one time and that was the original release \
for 2.0 which I objected to.  Anyways, IMHO this release schedule is a bit \
too aggressive for its own good.  I was planning on a re-design of the http \
io-slave so that we can easily add support for webdav and I am sure some \
people have similar things to do.  However, this is a minor issue for me \
compared to bombarding people with one release after another.  Shouldn't we \
at least give the users a month or two to digest the stable release at the \
time (2.1.1) before throwing yet another beta release on them ?  I know our \
release were a bit too lengthy before, but I feel that we are doing a 180 \
and going in the opposite direction now. People, specially those that use \
slow connection to download this stuff, might feel overwhelmed and simply \
ignore our beta releases.  This is a lose of potential bug reporters to us. \
As much as most of us hate some of the meaningless bug reports we receive, \
I do not think we want this, do we ?  As far as I am concerned a flurry of \
releases are just as bad as far apart ones.

I apologize if this sounds like a flame to people , but I am really \
concerned about the shrunken time frame here.  As such I respectfully \
disagree with this time frame.

Regards,
Dawit A.
 
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