<div dir="ltr">Hey,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Sebastian Kügler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebas@kde.org" target="_blank">sebas@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm pondering how much is the Thursday-to-be-tagged alpha worth, vs being a<br>
pain in the ass. We're facing a number of problems right now, let me list<br>
them:<br>
<br>
- We need some frameworks in newer-than-alpha1-version, notably kwindowsystem<br>
- plasma-framework needs to be repackaged, anyway<br>
- everybody is testing with latest frameworks, so even if we manage to build<br>
against the alpha1 of frameworks, how useful is testing then?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Note that the last release of KF5 was alpha2, the next one is beta already.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
- we have a whole bunch of pending work waiting<br>
<br>
You see, we've already learned by just trying to do an Alpha, and we're facing<br>
a number of problems. That's (almost) fine, it's why we do pre-releases in the<br>
first place.<br>
I'm pondering the possibility to delay the first alpha until we have a new<br>
alpha of frameworks, and then pushing it shortly thereafter, reducing the risk<br>
of a needed delta.<br>
<br>
The disadvantage is that we delay wide-spread testing, the upside is that the<br>
whole stack is much cleaner and actually possible to be sensibly packaged.<br>
<br>
This would mean:<br>
<br>
- getting all pending work in quickly, getting the split done, all before end<br>
of this month<br>
<br>
- no changes to plasma-framework or any other framework that is required for<br>
the Alpha between 28 April (tagging of frameworks alpha2) and Plasma Next<br>
Alpha 1 tagging (could happen the next day, or as soon as frameworks alpha2<br>
has been smoke-tested. Plasma Next packages have to work on latest frameworks<br>
pre-release<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm a bit confused about the dates. I think you mean 28 March, which is when KF5 beta1 will be tagged. Otherwise I agree, we should then switch to the tag and use/test plasma only with that.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
- paying more attention to changes in frameworks to make sure the above works<br>
<br>
- we either skip on alpha, or we squish the schedule to make it fit (schedule<br>
could use some aligning to frameworks releases, anyway), (I'd prefer the<br>
latter)<br>
<br>
I'm undecided, but have been for two days, so I thought I'd bring it up here.<br>
What do you think?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Given the frameworks repackaging needed, I think it makes sense to wait for their release. But that delays the Plasma alpha by 2 weeks. Which is fine I think and I'd personally be in favor of.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>Cheers</div>-- <br><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer</span></div>
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