Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead [LWN.net]

Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead

Posted Oct 19, 2016 13:56 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead

Reading that a window manager feels it necessary to schedule another 20 months' worth of releases in advance doesn't exactly fill me with confidence for its recently proclaimed stability.

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Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead

Posted Oct 19, 2016 14:54 UTC (Wed) by niner (guest, #26151) [Link] (1 responses)

Everything will make much more sense once you abandon your completely wrong assertions as to what KDE Plasma actually is.

If you then go one step further to actually read the blog post in question, you'll notice, that KDE Plasma's release intervals have been prolonged which seems to be in accordance to what you'd like to see.

Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead

Posted Oct 19, 2016 17:09 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Okay.

I was under the impression Plasma is a tool, like all the others, that lets me open and organise the programs I actually care about, and then gets out of my face so I can use them. The blog post's talk of LTS, release cycles, proprietary service support, makes it sound like an enterprise distro. But I thought that's what the *other* barrage of flames was all about ("call it KDE SC or we'll laugh at you"). Fine, I admit that I'm wrong there. I know from experience that the KDE side won't back down until I do.

Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead

Posted Oct 20, 2016 9:50 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Your argument don't hold in various ways:
1. The window manager is KWin, not Plasma
2. Why would releases planning have anything to do with stability?

Take for instance GNOME. We keep the schedules very similar release after release. We (in practice: Andre Klapper) could plan them way further in advance if we wanted to. If we did that, would then suddenly the current release be less stable? As in your view it would, while there's actually no real reason why we don't plan further ahead (small reasons: it's predictable anyway and it let us slightly tweak it to align it with conferences).