[Krusader-devel] Krusader in KDE's SVN

[shie erlich]

hi Sebas,
thanks for the informative mail.

I, for one, feel confident that the time is right for krusader to move
closer together with kde.
i think it has other advantages not mentioned here (mostly from PR
perspective), but that aside, i would like to know which module krusader
would be getting into. ideally, i'd like to see krusader in a package that
usually gets installed by default, which (i *think*) is not the situation
with extragear?
what do you think guys?

thanks,
shie


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Let me try to shine some light on some of the questions raised in the
> "should
> krusader move into KDE's SVN?" discussion. Please reply to both lists,
> krusader-devel at googlegroups.com and release-team at kde.org
>
> From the thread held on the krusader list, I'm sensing the misconceptions
> that
> being developed in KDE's SVN, it means you have to comply with KDE's
> release
> schedule. Not true, you can in fact decide that yourself. (Trade-off is
> basically between doing release management yourself and being free to
> decide
> when to release vs. having the KDE release team do it for you, but you have
> to
> respect the overall KDE release schedule then). That's your choice,
> however.
>
> * rules
> That depends largely on how you'd like to release. If you want krusader to
> be
> part of KDE releases (be it by means of extragear or some other module),
> you'll have to respect feature and string freezes. This kind of comes with
> the
> release management and translation the KDE team then does for you. I'm not
> aware of any other hard rules, but the policies page on techbase gives more
> info: http://techbase.kde.org/Policies (Note: not all applies to an app
> like
> krusader).
>
> * control
> You remain in control. If you choose to have Krusader released with regular
> KDE releases, rules for that apply. Basically, you can decide how you want
> to
> have your release cycle, commit policies etc. Sometimes, people will commit
> into your code, in almost all cases, those are trivial fixes then. If
> something that might raise objections go in, the committer should (as usual
> in
> KDE) contact the developers before committing. Everybody with a KDE SVN
> account has commit rights though. Basically, you can have Krusader in KDE's
> SVN and be as independent as you want.
>
> * advantages:
> - less infrastructure maintainance
> - more likely participation of developers that have a KDE SVN account
> already
> - code review, a lot of people follow commits and review patches (no
> promise,
>  it's just more likely due to increased visibility)
> - can be released alongside KDE (whereever it ends up, even extragear)
> - integration of SVN with bugtracker (Krusader is already using
> bugs.kde.org,
>  right?)
> - translation done be KDE translation teams (manpower, consistency across
>  desktop)
> - shows stronger KDE ties, taking a bit more advantage of KDE's brand
>
> * disadvantages
> - possibly losing history
> - migration effort
>
> I for one would be happy to welcome the Krusader team in KDE's SVN. If
> there
> are any questions left I would be happy to answer (as I'm sure that applies
> to
> others as well).
>
> Cheers,
> --
> sebas
>
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