Re: Releases in three months?

On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 10:21:18 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> A Terça, 9 de Julho de 2013 09:31:42 Jos Poortvliet escreveu:
> > 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.
> 
> please dont minimise the mount of work "getting screenshots" minimising that
> lead us to some of the worse RA we hever did. IN fact we have alot, and i
> meen alot to improve in that department.
> 
> And repeating what i said in the other thread, reaching a visual concept is
> not trivial, in fact its exausting, many here have seen me exasperating with
> this over the last years.

Well, ideally, we have a screenshot for each major features. If there are half 
as many features and half as big an announcement, half as many screenshots 
will suffice.

Artwork is of course a very different argument - but there is indeed no reason 
to do new artwork every 3 months, Aaron's suggestion to concentrate on a major 
overhaul once a year seems a good one to me.


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