Re: Releases in three months?

On Tuesday 09 July 2013 07:56:25 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Àlex Fiestas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi there, how is the promo team doing?
> > 
> > Today I've sent a proposal to kde-core-devel about  making a release every
> > 3 months. While developers discuss on that list whether it works for them
> > or not I'd like to ask you separately your PoV on the matter.
> > 
> > It has been brought by Nuno in the kcd thread that kde-promo won't be able
> > to make a good job if we switch to a 3 month release cycle, so I want to
> > ask you what things (if any) we can do to make it happen.
> > 
> > This is the thread I'm talking about:
> > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=137331442528841&w=2
> > 
> > You can find original reply from Nuno here:
> > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=137331586706259&w=2
> > 
> > So, what can we do to make a 3 month release work?
> 
> Getting the release promotion done for 6-month releases is already
> challenging. I don't think 3-month is currently doable without
> considerably more help.

It depends. Our limiting factor is, and always has been: getting a good idea 
of what's new.

Right now, that is a major pain in the ass. While there is the Features 
wikipage it rarely is complete (and IF it mentions a feature tells us little 
about it) and we're forced to go over commit digests and personal blogs to 
have a more complete picture.

If we could improve this somehow, say, developers would commit to having at 
least significant features mentioned there so that we can rely on it; we can do 
a lot better, a lot faster.

After all, once the features are there, getting screenshots and a pretty text 
together isn't all that hard.

Cheers,
J

> 
> Cheers
> Lydia
> 
> --
> Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
> KDE Community Working Group / KDE e.V. board member
> http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org
> 
> _______________________________________________
> This message is from the kde-promo mailing list.
> 
> Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set
> digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.


_______________________________________________
This message is from the kde-promo mailing list.

Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEABECAAYFAlHbvGIACgkQ+wgQ1AD35iyjwwCdFtYKCToRxuG6SQ7TkiFCKYnT
MccAnixeeva5ynYZ+EjWmcHsa0LC7No4
=Fsz8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----