Plasma 5.27 Kickoff Meeting Notes

[Jonathan Riddell]

Plasma 5.27 Kickoff

    * Review Plasma 5.26
        * QA is good.
        * KWin regressions.
        * Bigscreen well received, there is an important crasher in sentry
        * Announcement gets done by promo team, plasma devs should talk to
them to guide the process

    * Sentry
        * https://errors-eval.kde.org/
        * Need to investigate submission conditions to make sure they match
our intentions
        * Discussion about how we integrate with bugzilla; no firm
consensus yet among the several options

    * Plasma 5.27 etc release schedule
        * Agreed release schedule. Remove Qt 5 support after 5.27.2.
        * Will Frameworks get any patch fixes for 5 series?  Yes, bugfix
maintainer for a while.  No consensus on what that would look like.  5.101,
5.102, 5.103 released or 5.101.1, 5.101.2 as bugfix only maybe every 3
months? Discuss at Frameworks meeting tomorrow.

    * Plasma 5.27 Qt and KF5 deps
        * Leave it at set(QT_MIN_VERSION "5.15.2") but strongly recommend
distros use 5.15 from KDE patch collection.

    * VDG catchup
        * Discussed new wallpaper for Plasma 6, maybe a contest or
commission.  Andy suggests paying someone.
        * Welcome screens have been added to some apps.
        * Systemsettings: they have discussed deprecating QWidget KCMs for
KF6/Plasma 6.
        * Plasma developers want VDG to make non-code visual changes for
Plasma 6, like an icon refresh.
        * VDG people have a bunch of projects they'd like to work on that
require code changes from Plasma folks, like System Settings
re-organization and a unified theming system.
        * Discussed changing the Plasma version numbering system to no
longer be explicitly connected to the Qt version.
    * Plasma Mobile catchup
            * Weekly meetings on Thursday
    * 5.27 Plans
        * Prioritise porting QWidget KCMs to QtQuick see
https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/plasma_kcm_redesign/
        * ratijas will port powermanagement data engine
        * Plasma Welcome to be added: a simple onboarding wizard and
displays release notes for new releases
        * Flatpak KCM to be added
        * Plasma shell managing multi screen differently, works better for
e.g. USB-C docks.  If you switch between X and wayland the panels differ on
second screen, concept of primary screen extended to fix this.
        * Big tiling support in review
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