On Tue, Mar 12, 2024, at 9:57 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fe...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Tentative idea: >> - 6.1 in June >> - Two Betas >> - Slightly extend support window for the release to avoid gap between >> 6.1 ending and distros picking up 6.2 >> - Needs coordination with distros before finalizing >> > > I know we've discussed this in a few avenues before, but I'll continue > to suggest January/July to have the beta releases and February/August > for the final releases. This lines up with Fedora, Kubuntu, and > openSUSE cutoffs in their release schedules. > > (And while I think we shouldn't do Plasma LTS releases, since we are, > I think those should be done in the "spring" Plasma releases to align > with Kubuntu LTS and openSUSE Leap schedules.) >
If the Plasma team is set on kicking off the 6.x cycle with a June release, we could theoretically keep up the 4-month cycle for two more releases, October and (early to mid rather than late) February. Then switch to the 6-month cycle that's been previously considered. Knowing that the October release will miss most users that aren't on a rolling distro, and 6.1 for semi-annual upgraders will be missing out on two months of development that we could get from an August release. - Jakob
