On Monday, 2012-04-02, dE . wrote: > Is there any definitive release cycle? Like Debian has > stable/unstable/testing etc... branches and has general rules and > regulation on what has to be done at what time, regardless of the > current release? The general release cycle is 6 months long, i.e. that is the time between changes in minor versions. At the begin of each cycle there is a free development phase, followed by a freeze phase which gets increasingly more strict. For example look at the release schedule for the current verison http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Release_Schedule Each step has a description saying what can and can not be done from this point on. Each version's release schedule is drafted by the release team and usually accepted without objections [1]. Some things are additionally covered by more explicit policies, e.g. this one for update/patch releases: http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Minor_Point_Release_Policy Cheers, Kevin [1] in rare cases some dates get moved +/- one week if stakeholders feel that a period would otherwise be too short, e.g. due to holidays falling into the period -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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