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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Release schedule
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2007-11-05 18:18:51
Message-ID: 200711051918.51316.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Monday 05 November 2007, Bart Coppens wrote:

>
> Personally, I don't like a 6 months release cycle. It's too short for
> KOffice, IMO. Not that I'm coding much these days, 

Well, open up your xemacs, vi, kate, pico or kdevelop and start having some 
fun again!

> but I really think 6 
> months is too short for a relatively small project like KOffice.

We've been releasing twice a year with quite a bit of consistency for quite 
some time, I discovered when looking at the release announcements some time 
ago:

2001: nov, dec
2002: sept
2003: april
2004: jan
2005: june, oct
2006: april, oct

Now, 2003-2004 KOffice was transitioning to ODF, just like we're now 
transitioning to Qt4. That takes time, but after that it's a simple matter of 
fixing bugs and implementing new features, no longer of wholesale 
refactoring. At least I hope so, because they are exhausting and make us 
haemorrhage developers.

And sure, we can do in-between releases, too. when a feature is done in 9 
months (if I manage to automate the release process a bit more), but I think 
that having a really major release in Q1 and a release with the features that 
are ready six months later makes a lot of sense. 

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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