More 5.27 Releases

[Justin Zobel]

On 12/2/24 21:34, Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> Agreed.
>
> I also think it’s a bad mindset to have “there won’t be any 5.27 
> release”. We should for now treat backporting as if there will be 
> another one, given 6.0 isn’t even out yet.
>
> Cheers
> Kai Uwe
>
> Am 12.02.24 um 11:53 schrieb David Edmundson:
>> Plasma 5.27 is not getting any more regular timed releases. However in
>> the past for LTS releases we have said that we would just make them
>> on-demand if there's enough stuff.
>>
>> I've seen enough patches over the last month that warrant putting into
>> 5.27 with people not cherry-picking some major fixes because "there's
>> not going to be another release". I want to request that we do at
>> least one more spin some time in the next few months.
>>
>> David
I agree, while Plasma 6 is right around the corner, many distros won't 
adapt it for some time. Major bugfixes and security fixes should 
definitely continue being applied until such time that most major 
distros have updated to 6.

Justin