Working on releasing 2.9

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Stefano,

Adding the Amarok-devel ML, so all devs can see this.

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Stefano Pettini
<stefano.pettini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Myriam,
>
> I can find some time this week to give some help in releasing 2.9, by fixing
> the remaning open bugs and show stoppers (excluding the broken cuesheets, as
> it's broken since many years and releases).
>
Cool :-) Actually the only thing that needs to be done for the 2.9
release is to remove the option to disable SSL for the wikipedia
applet in the context view. Since wikipedia uses SSL exclusively now,
having that option doesn't make any sense anymore. In my book this is
the only showstopper.
There is another problem that has surfaced recently:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328359 but I fear this needs more
work as there has been an API change in musicbrainz and we would need
to switch to their new API. So I propose to postpone this to the Qt5
port, unless it is an easy fix :-)

> I'll post some patches to the review board, but I need your help in getting
> them through, possibly fast.
>
> Anyway we should switch to github, as many people contribute attaching
> patches to the bug tracking system, then you reply to re-do on the review
> board, and they abandon their work.

We do not switch to github for 3 simple reasons:
1. github is run by a company where KDE has no control over, and it is
also not completely Free Software
2. KDE runs its own infrastructure, Amarok 2.x is still using
reviewboard, but we will switch to Phabricator and its tools for the
Qt5 port of Amarok, you can already check out the project there (needs
an identity.kde.org account). Current development on KDE projects
happens on Phabricator now
3. we already use github as a mirror, but patches need to be done
through our infrastructure

> Look at my latest comment on bug 354255 for example.
>
There has been a commit since, so wasn't this already fixed?


Regards, Myriam
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