Hi KDE/Plasma developers! Nowadays, Fedora and Kubuntu make new releases twice a year within a week of each other, with relatively predictable release schedules.
Unfortunately, new KDE/Plasma releases happen a little bit too late for them to be included in those distributions in time for the release. Thus the current version of KDE/Plamsa in both Fedora and Kubuntu is one release behind (at least on release day). It may or may not be updated after the release. For the Fedora KDE SIG, we have an issue about this: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/25 As distribution package maintainers, we would like Plasma developers to slightly alter the release schedule to align releases with a more distribution friendly cycle. You could consider shortening one release cycle (and then keep the 6 month schedule) to align releases. With this schedule in place, we would also benefit from more beta releases over a slightly longer period. They would be packaged into the beta and RC releases of those distributions thus enabling more pre-release testing. All of this would benefit both upstream and downstream: - More pre-release and just released software testing as users test the new distribution version directly with the KDE beta and fresh stable releases - More updated and happy users using the latest release - Less bugs reported against older releases, more bugs reported before the final stable releases What do you think? Thanks! Timothée Ravier for the Fedora KDE SIG -- Timothée Ravier Red Hat & Fedora CoreOS Engineer Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> trav...@redhat.com IM: travier <https://www.redhat.com/>
