Request for delaying 4.8.4 request

Anne-Marie Mahfouf annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr
Wed Jun 6 13:58:02 UTC 2012


On 06/06/2012 03:37 PM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 10:08 AM, Dirk Mueller wrote:
>> On Monday 04 June 2012, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>>>> Not including this patch will mean not having fstab support until 4.9
>>>> (since  we won't have 4.8.5).
>>> Why aren't we doing .5 releases anymore? Those .5 releases have 
>>> always been
>>> welcome when they were done (which went back and forth). I also 
>>> don't see a
>>> good reason for skipping them: With a monthly release cycle, why 
>>> leave 2
>>> months between the .4 and .0 releases?
>>>
>>> I think the .5 releases really need to come back!
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> I'm fine with doing a .5 release when there is need for it, for me it 
>> is not a
>> lot of effort.
>>
>> I was not involved in the #kde-release-team discussion that decided 
>> this (see
>> release-team@ mailing list archive) so I don't really know what the 
>> reasons
>> were.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Dirk
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> John Tapsell also committed a patch to kde-workspace.
>
> For kdelibs we are waiting for Dawit to fix the Qt 4.8 problem and 
> there is also a regression https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301033 
> which could get in if the devel is quick.
>
> Quite a lot of recent bug fixes...
>
> Anne-Marie
>
OK sebas will patch kdelibs with Dawit's patch that I completed and 
tested and Lukas Tinkl got his fix in kdelibs just a few minutes ago
http://commits.kde.org/kdelibs/7f8c750541790de5a380409466cf07cfe19c3651
which caused a regression.

So when Sebas has sent Dawit's patch it'll be ready to go.

Anne-Marie




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