Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2011 schrieb Timothy Pearson:
Why not make a release, 3.5.14, in early January, after the move to Git and the rename thing is completed?? Even if it cures only a small bunch of bugs, it will be good, in many respects.
+1
I like this idea
Doing a release properly requires a little over a month dedicated to release tasks such as beta testing, compiling packages on all distributions, compiling release notes, etc. Also, building binary packages is not cheap, in terms of both time (of our distribution maintainers) and money (to feed everyone's build computers with electricity).
Releasing after the move to GIT would not cure a lot of the more stubborn bugs. Additionally, due to the renaming of *KDE* strings, the distribution maintainers have some work to do in order to update their packaging files. I don't want to place that kind of demand on our volunteer staff during the Christmas season, and then turn right around and demand the same thing a couple months later.
Thoughts?
What if not the whole TDE gets released but "only" bugfixed packages? It's clear it won't work during transition and renaming phase, but when that is settled (probably with 3.5.14) I think it would be a lot easier.
Nik
That would be much more managable. As you said it won't work for this cycle, but it is a possibility for future releases.
Tim