On 05/08/16 15:06, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On dinsdag 2 augustus 2016 02:35:30 CEST Aleix Pol wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Eike Hein <h...@kde.org> wrote: >>> On 07/28/2016 07:11 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: >>>> There's also the issue that if we move for one distro we'll end up >>>> with accusations of favouratism and requests for moving for other >>>> distros. But then maybe we do like openSUSE :) >>> >>> I think it'd show we care about getting shipped and try to work >>> with people - on a case by case basis. If you ship KDE to tons of >>> our users, we'll try to work well with you, too. >> >> With the added value that it's in our best interest that any >> distribution users are on maintained versions of our software. If >> opensuse 42.2 is released right before our release it means that their >> Plasma will be supported for about a month if at all (in contrast to >> the 18 months of Plasma 5.8). > > I agree with this. It's very valuable to have one of our major shippers on > LTS, instead of the version just before (but at that point already pretty > much > unsupported). > > Given that we postponed bigger changes until after the LTS, the risk of doing > this should be manageable. > > So +1 from my side. >
Great. I would say everyone agreed, isn't it? Who has to officially approve the change? > Also, I'd like to take Akademy as an opportunity to talk release rhythms. The > current 3 monthly schedule has been picked after 5.0 when we wanted to do > quick follow-up releases. I think the situation has changed enough to revisit > this. I agree. I hope to be able to attend those talks if they're public. > Maybe we should put more emphasis on the LTS release, do this regularly > (perhaps once a year), and ship stable, but feature releases more often. We > may or may not ship these with bugfix updates. Food for thought. That would be very nice. Every year, or as a minimum, make the last release before each LTS lifecyle ends be a new LTS release. Greetings, -- Antonio Larrosa
