Project Timelord -- Initial consideration

[Yiannis Belias]

Jonathan Thomas wrote
...
> Pretty much anything is fine here. It'd just be nice if people didn't go
> around blogging about it and such just yet.

Hi,
  I think the most important goal is to first have (quoting from the Timelord text)
"a concise mission statement and vision statement".
Then the answers to many questions could come much easier.

Example:
What is the target group of the Kubuntu distribution?
Is it for people who want a modern system, that 'just works',
*but* also stable with very few bugs?
Then it seems to me that the release timing between KDE<->Kubuntu is suboptimal.
Check out the following release time line, (I hope I have it right):
2009.01.27 KDE 4.2
2009.03.04 KDE 4.2.1
2009.04.01 KDE 4.2.2 -> Kubuntu 9.04
2009.05.06 KDE 4.2.3
2009.06.03 KDE 4.2.4
2009.08.04 KDE 4.3
2009.09.01 KDE 4.3.1
2009.10.06 KDE 4.3.2 -> Kubuntu 9.10
2009.11.03 KDE 4.3.3
2009.12.?? KDE 4.3.4
2010.02.09 KDE 4.4
2010.03.?? KDE 4.4.1
2010.04.?? KDE 4.4.2 -> Kubuntu 10.04 (just in time?)
2010.05.?? KDE 4.4.3
2010.06.?? KDE 4.4.4

[?? is a date guesstimation]

What I see here, is that users get an almost "just released" 4.x.2 KDE version,
while the .3 and .4 bugfix/translation/enhancement versions keep coming for 2
more months. Given the short number of bug testers/developers, a time shift would
probably suit more for the above user target group:
2009.08.04 KDE 4.3
2009.09.01 KDE 4.3.1
2009.10.06 KDE 4.3.2 -> Kubuntu 9.10 (KDE 4.2.4)
2009.11.03 KDE 4.3.3
2009.12.?? KDE 4.3.4
2010.02.09 KDE 4.4
2010.03.?? KDE 4.4.1
2010.04.?? KDE 4.4.2 -> Kubuntu 10.04 (KDE 4.3.4)
2010.05.?? KDE 4.4.3
2010.06.?? KDE 4.4.4
Yes, this means releasing about 4-5 months after 4.x.4, but Kubuntu releases can
either be in sync with Ubuntu or KDE. [Just trying to make a point here, I'm not
suggesting this as a new release plan!]

OTOH, if the target group is people who want a modern system, that 'just works',
*and* are OK with filling a bugreport or two occasionally, then current state
is probably OK.

Thank's for reading,
Yiannis

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