Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-15 Thread David Jarvie
On Monday 15 Jul 2013 09:46:49 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, July 12, 2013 17:48:50 David Jarvie wrote: > > best of intentions) for old habits to take over and to accidentally use > > master again. This happened to me more than once. > > So how can we make that clearer for people and hard fo

Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-15 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Freitag, 12. Juli 2013 17:47:53 CEST, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 22:39:29 Thomas Lübking wrote: There'll have to be (minor) patches to kde-workspace (you cannot keep shipping known and fixable crashes), thus new tarballs and shipping kdelibs 4.13.2, workspace 4.11.12

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Luca Beltrame
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > "we should try to recruit more people from the user community of > downstream distributions who have the skills necessary to merge patches > and test. some distributions do this already.” The reason I mentioned "issues" with this approach originally originate from (perha

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 15, 2013 02:48:01 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Diumenge, 14 de juliol de 2013, a les 04:19:52, Inge Wallin va escriure: > > I think keeping 6 months is a good > > figure to ensure both reasonable turn-around *and* actual bugfixes of > > versions being used in the real world. >

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 15 de juliol de 2013, a les 09:58:01, Cristian Tibirna va escriure: > Although Inge supposedly bases his analysis on extrapolation and (very) wise > guessing, and despite the obvious lack of hard data (1), I will put my > support behind Inge's view. > > (1) (sadly including here our b

Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Pyne
On Mon, July 15, 2013 10:46:49 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, July 12, 2013 17:48:50 David Jarvie wrote: > > best of intentions) for old habits to take over and to accidentally use > > master again. This happened to me more than once. > > So how can we make that clearer for people and hard fo

Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Pyne
On Mon, July 15, 2013 12:27:53 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday, July 13, 2013 23:36:24 David Faure wrote: > > * let master be the branch that will become 4.12, even if you (= the > > workspace developers) don't intend to do more than bugfixing on 4.x, there > > will always be a need to separate

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Cristian Tibirna
Although Inge supposedly bases his analysis on extrapolation and (very) wise guessing, and despite the obvious lack of hard data (1), I will put my support behind Inge's view. (1) (sadly including here our blatant dissing of, e.g., 527 severe bug reports on nepomuk... that ask for stability an

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Diumenge, 14 de juliol de 2013, a les 04:19:52, Inge Wallin va escriure: > I think keeping 6 months is a good > figure to ensure both reasonable turn-around *and* actual bugfixes of > versions being used in the real world. It may be a reasonable turn-around for some users, but it is also not d

Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hey, On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 18:57:41 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > So the kde-workspace dudes decided they don't want a 4.12 release and that > they'll do a LTS 4.11, fine, how do we fix that branch wise? After carefully reading everybody's opinion, I would like to make kde- workspace master our

Re: Review Request 111480: Notifications are shown multiple times

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111480/#review35959 --- Ship it! i think that technically this is a bug in the applica

Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 23:36:24 David Faure wrote: > I feel strongly about what kde-workspace should do in the current situation, > actually, after having gone through multiple solutions with kdelibs: Welcome to my world. I feel strongly about what kdelibs should have done. I am not the maint

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, July 14, 2013 04:19:52 Inge Wallin wrote: > Without having any scientific proof, I believe that there are 2 main > categories of users: > 1. Those generally satisfied who want stability > 2. Those who long for new updates all the time. Regardless of whether someone is a Category 1 or

Re: Review Request 111480: Notifications are shown multiple times

2013-07-15 Thread Cedric Bellegarde
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111480/ --- (Updated July 15, 2013, 9:18 a.m.) Review request for kde-workspace and Ma

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 09:50:21 Luca Beltrame wrote: > Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > 1. packagers seem to feel that if upstream doesn’t do the actual commit to > > the upstream repository, then upstream is not maintaining their software > > To be honest, that's not always true. Good :) > At leas

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-14, Inge Wallin wrote: > Here are some assumptions. Correct me if they are wrong: > - KDE developers support the last relesed and *maybe* the second to last > release with bugfixes. > - Distributions have a release cycle of 6 months or longer. > - Distributions pick their contents 2

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, July 13, 2013 14:05:13 Jaime Torres Amate wrote: > How would the release schedule ( > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Release_Schedule) be in a 3 or > 4 mounths release? 1 month for new features, 2 or 3 for bugfixing, > translating, language bindings? Or like linux kernel,

Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, July 12, 2013 17:48:50 David Jarvie wrote: > On Fri, July 12, 2013 4:42 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > * there were 2 main reasons the branched-kdelibs shifted back to master- > > > > kdelibis: > > * people were too stubborn and too (willfully) uninformed to understand > > > > why t

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, July 14, 2013 15:23:46 David Faure wrote: > On Friday 12 July 2013 17:07:13 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > we ought to think of ways to make master more stable. > > Exactly. And porting master to qt5/frameworks definitely doesn't make it > more stable, so let's not do that. > > (Yes, I'm m

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-15 Thread Ben
On 07/13/2013 10:19 PM, Inge Wallin wrote: Without having any scientific proof, I believe that there are 2 main categories of users: 1. Those generally satisfied who want stability 2. Those who long for new updates all the time. My feeling is that the first category is the silent majority an