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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle
From:       Scott Kitterman <kde () kitterman ! com>
Date:       2014-05-20 13:45:36
Message-ID: 828c930a-8355-4d26-91ce-cb0be5c215dc () email ! android ! com
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On May 20, 2014 8:52:30 AM EDT, Mario Fux <kde-ml@unormal.org> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2014, 14.09:18 schrieb Scott Kitterman:
> 
> Morning Scott
> 
> > On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 14:07:02 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:55:26 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > > I'm open to discussing change, but so far the change is "You're
> on your
> > > > own, get over  it".  Not a lot to discuss in that.
> > > 
> > > It's not at all the way it's been thought, it is unfortunate if it
> is
> > > perceived that way. Looks like I can't frame and present it
> properly
> > > then.
> > > 
> > > Really the intent is to try something different to foster higher
> quality
> > > output and from there move toward fixing the pain points it might
> create.
> > 
> > I get that.  The problem is the new thing won't be useful to us.
> 
> Ok, fair enough. So what would be your proposal to make it better?
> 
> Thanks a lot for a constructive discussion (and that's not ironic!)

This or something very like it was already suggested by someone else, so I'm not \
claiming this as my idea, but I think a reasonable compromise would be something \
like:

 - Monthly feature releases as proposed.

 - Select one release every 6 months as long term support (I'd suggest \
March/September) which has a stable branch.

 - Developers backport "safe" fixes to the stable branch.

 - For complex changes the can't safely be applied to the stable branch, a new branch \
off of stable is created and the developer issues a call for testing (maybe on this \
list).  If testing succeeds, it gets merged back to stable.

 - Updates to the stable branch get released monthly at the same time as the monthly \
feature release.

Something like that. 

Scott K

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