On 3/3/26 12:31 PM, Martin Riethmayer wrote:
Hello Release-Team,
following up Davids mail to plasma-devel (see below): There's an idea
to release Plasma 6.8 on KDEs 30th birthday (i.e. release 6.8.0 on
October 14th). [1]
This would shift dates slightly for all versions before (soft freeze,
betas and tar-creation) and would result in Plasma 6.8 missing the
release of FW 6.30 by one day (if normal timings are kept).
Would it be possible to advance the release of FW 6.30 by 1-2 days?
I.e. 6.30 would be released on September 9th or 10th instead of
September 11th.
Other alternatives I can see (there may be more, of course):
- use FW 6.29 for Plasma 6.8
- delay Plasma 6.7.90 by 2 days (it would shorten the beta period for
beta 1, presumably, by those 2 days)
Best regards
Martin
[1] https://invent.kde.org/teams/promo/30th-anniversary/-/work_items/7
Am 02.03.26 um 10:08 schrieb David Redondo:
Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2026, 16:13 schrieb Martin Riethmayer:
Hi everyone,
[....]
+++++ [Plasma 6.8.] +++++
6.7.80 2026-09-03
6.7.90 2026-09-17 [Note5]
6.7.91 2026-10-01
TAR 2026-10-15
6.8.0 2026-10-20
6.8.1 2026-10-27
6.8.2 2026-11-03
6.8.3 2026-11-17
6.8.4 2026-12-08
6.8.5 2027-01-12
6.8.6 2027-03-16 [Note6]
as all of you know this year is the 30th anniversary of KDE. Like we
did for
5.23 and the 25th anniversary let's make 6.8 the 30th anniversary
edition.
We released 5.23 on the day of the anniversary, I propose we do the
same for
6.8. See also: https://invent.kde.org/teams/promo/30th-anniversary/-/
work_items/7
I propose:
Shift the release dates by a week so 6.8.0 releases on the 14th of
October.
The patch and beta releases could keep their day of the week. In detail:
+++++ [Plasma 6.8.] +++++
6.7.80 2026-08-27
6.7.90 2026-09-10 ¹
6.7.91 2026-09-24
TAR 2026-10-08
6.8.0 2026-10-14
6.8.1 2026-10-20
6.8.2 2026-10-27
6.8.3 2026-11-10
6.8.4 2026-12-01
6.8.5 2027-01-05
6.8.6 2027-03-02
¹ this means we would miss the proposed frameworks released on the
11th, maybe
delay or ask Nicolas to release frameworks a bit earlier?
Cheers,
David
Hi,
we can do that. Should we do it on the same day as the Plasma beta?
