On Monday 08 August 2011 00:42:50 Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday, August 06, 2011 09:32:02 AM David Faure wrote: > .. > > > The next step is to backport the few bits of new api that went into master > > and that application developers started using, into the 4.7 branch of > > kdelibs. I'll work on that, but help is welcome too. > > ... > > This plan seems to be contrary to the KDE Point Release Policy [1]. At this > point I don't see an easy way out, but it would be good if a cutoff point > for these additional API changes in 4.7 could be set (perhaps no later than > 4.7.1's release). > [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Minor_Point_Release_Policy
Under some conditions, the policy allows new API in a stable branch. We decided that these conditions were met :-) (IIRC there were only three, and they were rather minor and safe; a KUrl::List constructor, a new exported method, a new signal) -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).
