A proposal to release 2.9

[Mark Kretschmann]

Hi,

no crash on exit for me with latest master. I'll try to figure this out
with Heiko on IRC.

Is anyone else here getting this crash?


Mark


On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Heiko Becker <heirecka at exherbo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 02/24/18 23:58, Stefano Pettini wrote:
> > it looks like there's a general agreement on releasing 2.9 from master,
> > Myriam is also fine with the plan. I said in the past I wanted to do it
> > but I have no experience and time so if Heiko can do it then I would
> > prefer this solution.
>
> I created a tarball with https://phabricator.kde.org/D10923 (make
> Qt4Webkit optional) and https://phabricator.kde.org/D10924 (temp.
> disable Goolgle and Discogs cover search) included:
>
> https://dev.exherbo.org/~heirecka/amarok-2.9.0.tar.xz
>
> I almost didn't notice that it crashes on shutdown with a "double free
> or corruption" (because I don't have a kdelibs4 drkonqi anymore). Can
> somebody reproduce this? Anybody willing to volunteer and fix it?
>
> Also, sysadmins currently imposed a dependency/release freeze [1], so we
> need to wait a bit anyway.
>
> > About KF5 and master, what's the plan? Merging the two, cherrypicking
> > patches since the fork or just abandoning master? I would not favor the
> > last solution as time was spent by many, including me, for useful fixes
> > and I would like to make sure that these are not lost (same reason why I
> > proposed to release 2.9).
>
> I already merged some stuff from master into kf5, but the two branches
> diverged quite a bit and I discussed with Mark on #amarok.dev to
> cherry-pick in the future.
>
> Cheers,
> Heiko
>
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=151998691026704&w=2
>
>
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