Re: Releases in three months?

On Tuesday 09 July 2013 15:43:59 you wrote:
> This idea needs more thought in my view.
> 
> What is the impact on users?
> I do very little with the technical end of KDE. Mostly I work with
> users and user groups. KDE releases are newsworthy. Making small
> releases more often removes much of the newsworthiness. If the
> releases are small and nearly inconsequential, then they really aren't
> releases.
If this really happens, releases turn out to be inconsequential we can group a 
few of them and do big release announcements every 6/9 months.

And Idea would be increasing the first number more often, and making the big 
release announcement there. This will potentially have the nice side-effect of 
removing the fear that our users have since kde3-4 transition.

That will mean having:
KDE 4.12
KDE 4.13
KDE 5
KDE 5.1
KDE 5.2
KDE 6
etc.

Will be also a good way of voiding this big numbers that are not easy to use.

> The title of the BoF at Akademy is "New KDE SC Release schedule". It
> would be more accurate to have that be "Proposed more frequent release
> schedule", which would make a difference for people who may want to be
> involved.
Changed.

> Another thought...
> Smaller releases more often would reduce the amount of work that goes
> into release announcements. Further, it might be interesting to
> feature individual applications, improvements and so forth. Since last
> Akademy, there have been few product announcements. So people don't
> really get the scope of what the KDE Community offers.
> 
> If we feature more individual applications, there would still be the
> need for developer input. It seems like this might change the dynamics
> of developer involvement.
This is in my humbler opinion something that should happen independently of 
whether we change the release schedule or not.

Maybe we can organize a google hangout, or  a mumble to talk about this little 
bit further? 

Cheers !


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