Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-15 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Monday 14 January 2013 17:37:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > I'll add only one semi-new point: > > * active, healthy communication between components teams. no more developing > in caves. no more not talking to each other. broad, inter-component > coordination. > > Development plans and progress sh

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
ok, so finally my answers ... i deliberately waited until the discussion was done give my own answers as it's really hard to facilitate a discussion and participate at the same time. (well, i did poke my thoughts into the thread a few times .. :) On Thursday, January 10, 2013 22:05:28 Aaron J.

Re: Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-14 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Monday 14 January 2013 11:16:43 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Saturday 12 January 2013 17:56:14 Kevin Ottens wrote: > > > > [*] Historical note no one will probably care about > > > > > > actually, i care :) i rather suspected this was the case, given the > > > number > > > of developers i've hear

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-14 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Saturday 12 January 2013 17:56:14 Kevin Ottens wrote: > > > [*] Historical note no one will probably care about > > > > actually, i care :) i rather suspected this was the case, given the number > > of developers i've heard this same kind of story from. the reason for > > moving to packages var

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 20:01:46 Alex Fiestas wrote: > On Saturday 12 January 2013 18:45:07 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > we have 3 repositories which probably should target 4.11: > > > > * kscreen (playground/base/) > > * libkscreen (playground/libs/) > > * kio_mtp (playground/base/) > > > > t

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Saturday 12 January 2013 18:45:07 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > we have 3 repositories which probably should target 4.11: > > * kscreen (playground/base/) > * libkscreen (playground/libs/) > * kio_mtp (playground/base/) > > they have a few things in common: > > * they are all worked on by Alex F. :

Re: Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Saturday 12 January 2013 19:13:29 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Saturday 12 January 2013 18:45:07 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > if they are targetted for 4.11 (or some future release even?) we'll need > > to > > figure out how to deal with these separate repos. do they end up merged > > into kde-worksp

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Saturday 12 January 2013 18:54:23 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday, January 12, 2013 18:29:22 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > In the recent past, we have had people giving "ship it" in reviewboard to > > code that was not maintained by them and what is worst modifications that > > broke (or still bre

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Saturday 12 January 2013 18:54:23 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > so i'd like to see *more* reviewboard input rather than less. it would be totally awesome if more people would do reviews outside their normal "teritory". E.g. me doing more reviews of Plasma stuff, but also Plasma people doing more re

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Saturday 12 January 2013 18:45:07 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > if they are targetted for 4.11 (or some future release even?) we'll need to > figure out how to deal with these separate repos. do they end up merged into > kde-workspace? do we put them as "child" repos of kde-workspace and rely on > kde

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 18:29:22 Alex Fiestas wrote: > In the recent past, we have had people giving "ship it" in reviewboard to > code that was not maintained by them and what is worst modifications that > broke (or still breaks) stuff, we should prevent this from happening. we already gene

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 18:14:21 Marco Martin wrote: > On Saturday 12 January 2013, Kevin Ottens wrote: > > > actually, i care :) i rather suspected this was the case, given the > > > number of developers i've heard this same kind of story from. the reason > > > for moving to packages varies,

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Saturday 12 January 2013 17:57:37 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday, January 12, 2013 17:38:03 Marco Martin wrote: > > wonder how much scales for something as big as the kde-workspace repo... > > my experience with plasma-mobile seems to indicate that it is easily done by > one person. i woul

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 12 January 2013, Kevin Ottens wrote: > > actually, i care :) i rather suspected this was the case, given the > > number of developers i've heard this same kind of story from. the reason > > for moving to packages varies, but fewer KDE devs run master than > > probably ever before. it se

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 17:38:03 Marco Martin wrote: > wonder how much scales for something as big as the kde-workspace repo... my experience with plasma-mobile seems to indicate that it is easily done by one person. i wouldn't want to see one person doing all of kdelibs, kde- runtime, kde-

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Saturday 12 January 2013 17:36:01 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday, January 12, 2013 16:00:10 Kevin Ottens wrote: > > As already pointed out, this should be a set of people not a single one. > > a bus number greater than 1 is important, but i also think the realities of > doing this job limit

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 12 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote: > > yep, it works well on plasma-mobile (and yeah, needs *one* person,first > weeks of it we tried it done by more than one person and uuuh, nope ;)) > > wonder how much scales for something as big as the kde-workspace repo... > coulb be person a r

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 12 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > * when branches are merged into master (because they've passed whatever > testing set out as required) i send an email to the list noting what has > been merged into master and what is still being merged into integration > > as we don't have for

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 16:00:10 Kevin Ottens wrote: > As already pointed out, this should be a set of people not a single one. a bus number greater than 1 is important, but i also think the realities of doing this job limits the number of people who can, will and even should be doing it.

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 17:01:40 Alex Fiestas wrote: > This is my opinion now (no longer what I remember from the sprint). > > On Saturday 12 January 2013 15:54:39 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Saturday, January 12, 2013 14:08:44 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > > -Master > > > -Integration > > > > t

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Alex Fiestas
This is my opinion now (no longer what I remember from the sprint). On Saturday 12 January 2013 15:54:39 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday, January 12, 2013 14:08:44 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > -Master > > -Integration > > this is what we are doing now in plasma-mobile. it has taken a bit to get >

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 03:35:22 Christoph Feck wrote: > On Thursday 10 January 2013 22:05:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > what, if anything, would you like to be done differently in 4.11? > > We should honestly ask ourself, if we still take user feedback > seriously. If there is no maintainer

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Friday 11 January 2013 22:58:49 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Back in the days of early 4.x I did rebuild almost every day. To me it's a > sign that our software got better, I don't have the need to rebuild just to > get the latest bug fix and most components are so feature complete that I > don't nee

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Friday 11 January 2013 17:26:39 Marco Martin wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > hello. > > > > > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle > > > very fresh in mind, it is a reasonbl

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 14:08:44 Alex Fiestas wrote: > -Master > -Integration this is what we are doing now in plasma-mobile. it has taken a bit to get used to (mostly for me doing the integration branch; we were already using branches heavily). i think it is working pretty well. i blogged

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Friday 11 January 2013 13:08:03 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > My personal highlight is the menu in windeco, but that is so hidden, that I > don't expect users will find it. >From my perspective, it's not really a problem. It allows to have the feature maturing through the power users involvement firs

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Friday 11 January 2013 20:37:58 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, January 11, 2013 18:37:44 Alex Fiestas wrote: > > If we want to discuss this, we should start another thread for not going > > off topic. > > imho it's completely on topic. Very well then We talked about quality, reviews and pr

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, January 11, 2013 21:13:58 Mark wrote: > Why don't we use one of the sprints for this? i'd rather use in-person meetings for things that are difficult to do otherwise. testing really should not require being in person, and issues of design and things like large refactorings are extrem

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Raymond Wooninck
On Saturday 12 January 2013 08:36:52 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > OpenSUSE has KDE:Unstable:SC which is made up of (regularly) updated > > snapshots of current git master. > > yes, but you cannot install it into a different directory AFAIK. It > overwrites your stable installation. Hi Martin, This

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-12 Thread Luca Beltrame
In data sabato 12 gennaio 2013 08:36:52, Martin Gräßlin ha scritto: > yes, but you cannot install it into a different directory AFAIK. It > overwrites your stable installation. A few of the openSUSE community are working on live images based on current master (using the same repository). I plan o

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Saturday 12 January 2013 00:52:36 Luca Beltrame wrote: > In data venerdì 11 gennaio 2013 22:58:49, Martin Gräßlin ha scritto: > > Granted, not everyone is using Kubuntu, but I do think that other distros > > could do similar (not looking into a particular direction, but there's a > > Geeko on my

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Christoph Feck
On Thursday 10 January 2013 22:05:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > what, if anything, would you like to be done differently in 4.11? We should honestly ask ourself, if we still take user feedback seriously. If there is no maintainer for a particular piece of code, simply admitting it can cause less us

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Luca Beltrame
In data venerdì 11 gennaio 2013 22:58:49, Martin Gräßlin ha scritto: > Granted, not everyone is using Kubuntu, but I do think that other distros > could do similar (not looking into a particular direction, but there's a > Geeko on my desk) OpenSUSE has KDE:Unstable:SC which is made up of (regular

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 11 January 2013 15:20:42 Weng Xuetian wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2013 17:26:39,Marco Martin : > > On Friday 11 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote: > > > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > > hello. > > > > > > > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with thi

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 11 January 2013 20:37:37 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, January 11, 2013 17:53:34 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > I think it's needed and I think nobody in our inner development circle can > > be part of it. We are all blind :-) > > i've already said this in another email, but this is only

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Weng Xuetian
On Friday 11 January 2013 17:26:39,Marco Martin : > On Friday 11 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > hello. > > > > > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle > > > very fresh in mind, it is a reasonble tim

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, January 11, 2013 22:11:49 Vishesh Handa wrote: >> I think this is too big for one person. > > certainly one person can not do it *all*. however, as i think 4.10 has shown > rather dramatically, unless there is at least one person

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, January 11, 2013 22:11:49 Vishesh Handa wrote: > I think this is too big for one person. certainly one person can not do it *all*. however, as i think 4.10 has shown rather dramatically, unless there is at least one person who is specifically given this responsibility, nobody does any

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, January 11, 2013 18:37:44 Alex Fiestas wrote: > If we want to discuss this, we should start another thread for not going off > topic. imho it's completely on topic. > In the workspace sprint we had some ideas about this. please share them :) -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Descrip

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, January 11, 2013 17:53:34 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > I think it's needed and I think nobody in our inner development circle can > be part of it. We are all blind :-) i've already said this in another email, but this is only half true. we need people outside our inner circle looking at thi

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 02:04:13 Jekyll Wu wrote: > If there is such an (plasma) master available, I think he/she should > probably better spend time on development, instead of on "poking others". that's a lovely idea, but who knows who needs to be poked when but someone who knows the techn

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Jekyll Wu
On 2013年01月12日 00:26, Marco Martin wrote: maybe what we actually need is someone with a wide enough knowledge of the codebase, that continuously uses master and tests, poking people when regressions happen? (especially in areas far from what one usually works in, since for own area "proximity bli

Re: Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Alex Fiestas
If we want to discuss this, we should start another thread for not going off topic. In the workspace sprint we had some ideas about this. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 11 January 2013 17:26:39 Marco Martin wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > hello. > > > > > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle > > > very fresh in mind, it is a reasonb

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > hello. > > > > > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development > cycle > > > very fresh in mind, it is a reason

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 11 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > hello. > > > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle > > very fresh in mind, it is a reasonble time to reflect on how it went. > > this thread can be a place f

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
2013/1/10 Aaron J. Seigo : > hello. Hi > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle very > fresh in mind, it is a reasonble time to reflect on how it went. this thread > can be a place for us to do so, if we so wish. and i hope we do so that we can > improve our proce

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hello. > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle > very fresh in mind, it is a reasonble time to reflect on how it went. this > thread can be a place for us to do so, if we so wish. and i hope we do so > that w

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Andreas Demmer
Hi! > so how do you think 4.10 went? I was not involved deeply in this release and did not contribute anything besides some hopefully insightful bug reports. > what do you feel are the "defining" accomplishments for the desktop > workspace in 4.10? (e.g. the positive things people will talk a

Re: reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-11 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Thursday 10 January 2013 22:05:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hello. > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle > very fresh in mind, it is a reasonble time to reflect on how it went. this > thread can be a place for us to do so, if we so wish. and i hope we do so

reflecting on 4.10

2013-01-10 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hello. we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development cycle very fresh in mind, it is a reasonble time to reflect on how it went. this thread can be a place for us to do so, if we so wish. and i hope we do so that we can improve our processes in the future. so how do you th