How much to backport? Was: An other RC ?

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 11 January 2013 11:07, Cyrille Berger <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
> They are not regressions, but are rather severe bugs in the calculation
> engine of sheets:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313010
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312981
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313056
>
>
>> Actually this keeps bugfixes unreleased for a long time. May I to ask
>> for another minor release for 2.5 in the meantime?
>
> I am fine with that.

OK then,
Can I help you in any way with the release (except posting some info
on the web page)?

I can only see backports for Kexi, so not much for now (OTOH is Kexi
had standalone release there definitely would be 2.5.5):
*koproperty: use QMap so items are always sorted by key
*Fixed SqlitePreparedStatement: sqlite3_reset should be called
immediately after sqlite3_step
*Description was ignored in db command link button
*Fix possible crash when pressing tab in the global search box

Anyone cares to cherry-pick fixes for severe bugs, like these for Sheets?

== Now, How much to backport? ==

Some background, as I'd like to ask for sharing your thoughts on
optimizing our deployment. The obvious idea of more aggressive
backporting of fixes is motivated by this observation. For some major
releases of distros (without rolling releases as in Arch or Gentoo),
Calligra 2.5 is the last available and people won't have access to 2.6
without either major upgrade of their distro or looking for unofficial
repositories. And for users that do not stay on bleeding edge, only
those really dedicated users of your app will upgrade the whole OS
just for the pleasure to have bugs fixed and feature added. Everyone
else would discover the greatness much later, and that happens for
every release.

As always, chances are that distros without rolling releases would
happily apply bugfixes for another 2.5 release; but rather won't ship
2.6. This is quite like neverending story and annoys me quite a bit.

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