El Divendres, 18 de gener de 2013, a les 19:37:52, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: > On Tuesday 15 January 2013 23:27:53 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dimarts, 15 de gener de 2013, a les 16:30:50, Allen Winter va escriure: > > > Howdy, > > > > > > A proposed KDE SC 4.11 Release schedule is now available at > > > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Release_Schedule > > > > > > (created using toma's really useful releaseschedule program) > > > > > > Please review and report back any obvious problems, for example > > > conflicts with conferences (i.e. Akademy). > > > > I'd like to propose some changes for 4.11, i'd like everyone to comment > > > > 1) Drop Betas to 1 > > > > It doesn't seem "to me" that having extra betas gives us much more > > quality, > > > > so my suggestion is to drop Beta 2 and move Beta 1 to happen in Beta 2 > > time > > (moving also Hard Freeze) which gives us 2 more weeks for feature > > development > > > > 2) Drop RCs to 1 > > > > Same thing, it did not feel to me as that it gave us much, drop RC2 and > > RC1 > > > > one week into the future > > I don't think that the number of Betas and RCs are too much and I think that > more Betas and more RCs help improving the quality. Reducing the number of > Betas and RCs means removing the chance to properly test stuff. In KWin we > had more than once that we pushed a patch to a beta to see if it fixes a > problem with the option to still revert it in the next beta. We need to do > that in case of driver related issues which the devs cannot reproduce due > to lack of hardware. If there are no betas which would allow us to do such > "experiments" we would not do it as the risk is too high, but that also > means that a large user group would lack an important improvement. We never > push such changes in the minor releases as they are not tested at all prior > to the release.
I see your point, wouldn't the "less Beta/RC but more weekly 'unofficial' releases" suggestion help you even more? > I think that the 4.11 cycle was not optimal, but I think it is because it > overlapps with Christmas and New Year. Why was that suboptimal? We've been having that since all the 4.x.odd releases Cheers, Albert > Reducing the number of betas is > therefore fixing the wrong part of the schedule. > > Cheers > Martin _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
