On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 at 09:36, Sven Brauch <m...@svenbrauch.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 10/30/21 7:04 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > Am Freitag, 29. Oktober 2021, 21:33:00 CEST schrieb Jonathan Riddell: > >> KDevelop did used to be part of the KDE SC releases and at some point > >> separated. So one query is why did that release schedule separation > happen > > I looked in the archives and this seems to last have been the case for > KDevelop 3.3.x, released in 2006-ish, or maybe a bit later. > > This was > 15 years ago, completely different people working on a quite > different code base (the core C++ language support plugin was basically > completely rewritten *twice* since then!). So I'm not sure it makes > sense to be afraid of a potential ping-pong situation between being part > of KDE SC and not being part of it. > > Compared to 4.0 times, the project is now very mature and instead of > fast-paced feature development by a small core team, KDevelop's progress > is nowadays more a continuous stream of small fixes contributed by a big > crowd. So while releases used to be driven by the motivation of a few to > get new features out when they are done and then quickly follow-up with > stabilization releases, that is no longer the case. > Good answers :) Jonathan
