Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-08 Thread Ingo Klöcker
[This message is a reply to all people requesting a long-term-maintained frameworks branch.] On Sunday 04 May 2014 16:27:44 Luigi Toscano wrote: > Kevin Ottens ha scritto: > > So, we had a team discussion here with Albert, Aleix, Alex, Alex, > > Aurélien, David, Rohan and myself. We juggled with

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-08 Thread Saro Engels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 04.05.2014 18:36, schrieb David Faure: > [Cross posting against my will...] > > On Sunday 04 May 2014 16:27:44 Luigi Toscano wrote: >> I understand that the big concern was about the testing: stable >> branches did not receive the same attention

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-07 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, May 05, 2014 11:11:53 Martin Klapetek wrote: > However this highly depends on the distro policies - if some of the big > distros say "we will not update KF5 every month because our policies", then > the 6 months buffer is just moved elsewhere, at the distro level because > they will upda

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Sunday, May 04, 2014 16:27:44 Luigi Toscano wrote: > Kevin Ottens ha scritto: > > So, we had a team discussion here with Albert, Aleix, Alex, Alex, > > Aurélien, > > David, Rohan and myself. We juggled with several options, trying to > > address > > > > the following constraints: > > * We don'

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-05 Thread Harald Sitter
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Martin Klapetek wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:36 PM, David Faure wrote: >> >> [Cross posting against my will...] >> >> On Sunday 04 May 2014 16:27:44 Luigi Toscano wrote: >> > I understand that the big concern was about the testing: stable branches >> > did >>

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-05 Thread Joseph Crowell
0.0.1 version releases seem to work pretty well for Qt and are released as necessary iiuc. On 5/5/2014 2:36 AM, David Faure wrote: [Cross posting against my will...] On Sunday 04 May 2014 16:27:44 Luigi Toscano wrote: I understand that the big concern was about the testing: stable branches di

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-05 Thread Martin Klapetek
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:36 PM, David Faure wrote: > [Cross posting against my will...] > > On Sunday 04 May 2014 16:27:44 Luigi Toscano wrote: > > I understand that the big concern was about the testing: stable branches > did > > not receive the same attention > > This is not the main concern. >

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-04 Thread David Faure
[Cross posting against my will...] On Sunday 04 May 2014 16:27:44 Luigi Toscano wrote: > I understand that the big concern was about the testing: stable branches did > not receive the same attention This is not the main concern. My main concern is that application developers prefer to work aroun

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-04 Thread Luigi Toscano
Kevin Ottens ha scritto: > So, we had a team discussion here with Albert, Aleix, Alex, Alex, Aurélien, > David, Rohan and myself. We juggled with several options, trying to address > the following constraints: > * We don't have many contributors; > * We don't have enough testing in the stable b

Re: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-28 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 27 April 2014, Kevin Ottens wrote: > Of course, going with this type of cycle comes with some price of its own: > * Features in released modules can only be introduced in a very fine > grained way so as to not jeopardize the stability; on one hand I'll probably miss feature branches, on

KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-27 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello people, As you may have noticed, we're covering quite a few tasks here during the sprint. But, we're also having discussion topics, and the most important one we covered is the release cycle. Indeed, we got the question several times already of "once 5.0 is out what will happen?" It is wh