On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Bernd Steinhauser < li...@bernd-steinhauser.de> wrote:
> On 23/06/14 17:27, Martin Graesslin wrote: > >> On Monday 23 June 2014 16:56:55 Marco Martin wrote: >> >>> On Monday 23 June 2014, Rohan Garg wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone >>>> I was wondering, has there been any discussions on whether or not bug >>>> fix releases for Plasma 5 will be provided after the 5.0 release? Or >>>> will users simply have to wait for the next 5.1 release to get bug >>>> fixes? >>>> >>>> There also doesn't seem to be any indication of what the time frame >>>> will be between Plasma 5 releases ( I was told 3 months by some >>>> people, this doesn't seem to be written down in a wiki page). >>>> >>>> Would be awesome if someone could indicate what the roadmap is after >>>> the Plasma 5.0 release :) >>>> >>> >>> I assumed there would have been monthly bugfix releases as in 4.x? >>> >> >> +1 on monthly bug fixes. >> >> Concerning feature release: for KWin I would like to get to a six week >> schedule (for Wayland porting) and a synced with bug fixes release >> together >> with plasma. For Plasma I could imagine anything between 3 months and 6 >> months. 3 months might be a good idea to bring important features back as >> soon >> as possible. >> > If we as distributors are not expected to ship it as a default desktop, is > there much point in releasing bug fix releases? > > So why not—for the first months after the initial release—go for rapid > releases that bring both bug fixes but also missing features that users > will want anyway? > > Plasma Next already works quite well, at least the parts that are there. > The main showstoppers imo for a broader range of users are missing > features, i.e. plasmoids. > > From the distributors point of view, for an experimental software like > plasma next, that is mainly targeted at bug finders, testers etc., I would > rather like to ship the most usable version, not a first stripped down > version with just a few bugfix releases. > Don't get me wrong, bugfix releases are very important, but I'm sure that > the bugfixes go into feature releases, too. ;-) > > Best Regards, > Bernd > > I think it's a good idea. Aleix
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