On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 10:25 AM Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:10 PM David Edmundson <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk> > wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> >> We have in the past shuffled things slightly to line up things up with >> distros on request, particularly LTS releases. We can certainly explore that >> on a one-off basis. >> >> >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. >> >> We did have 6 month release cycles in the past. >> >> The rationale for moving at the time was twofold: >> - people rushed in changes towards the feature freeze as otherwise it would >> be aages till their changes reached users >> - the more changes we have in a release, the more testing and inevitable >> regression fixes we need to do, spreading that out should result in things >> being more stable >> >> Initially we did every 3 months (which arguably still aligns) then it slowly >> slipped to 4. >> >> My personal impression is that releases have gotten better as a result of >> those changes, so I'm hesitant about reverting that decision. >> > > > Makes sense. With Qt being less of a moving target though, it could make > sense to reevaluate our cadence though, both because we might start looking > into the future and because the system we support should not be changing as > much. >
If we don't want to move to 6 months, pulling back from 4 months to 3 months would make it easier for us to not miss Plasma releases. That being said, with Qt6 now being a thing, wouldn't that mean Qt is more of a moving target again? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
