Long term support release for Plasma?

[Gastón Cocco]

Good idea.

El mié., 29 de jun. de 2016 11:29 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org>
escribió:

> Am 2016-06-29 15:34, schrieb Philip Muskovac:
> >> * how long should a LTS be supported?
> > I would be happy with your proposal, but it would be nice if security
> > issues could be evaluated for the previous LTS as well. Doesn't need a
> > release, a note in the advisory would be sufficient.
>
> Just as a note: we hit one sever security issue in 5.x so far and that
> got backported to all releases (including 5.0). So yeah that certainly
> sounds doable and is also something I expect our security team to ask
> for.
>
> >>
> >> Related to that:
> >> * what to do with frameworks?
> >> * Would you freeze the frameworks version or continue to backport
> >> newer
> >> framework versions to your distribution?
> >> * Would you want an LTS branch for frameworks as well?
> >> * What would you expect that to look like?
> > For frameworks I'm clueless, really. To be able to use a frameworks
> > release in Kubuntu as an "update" it would have to...
> > - not cause any regressions [Not in plasma, not in any other software
> > that uses it] (Hi behavior change when closing applications)
> > - not have any new or updated dependencies ("new" as in: we would need
> > to add/update a 3rd party package)
> > - not have any component or pieces of a component removed (counts as
> > "regression" [not frameworks, but hi kdepim for once removing unused
> > public libs in a "bugfix" update])
> > - not have any components added (ok, that could probably be handled if
> > really necessary)
> >
> > That's why we and other distributions were asking for bugfix releases
> > for frameworks 2 years ago. Did something change in the meantime that
> > I missed?
>
> I'm not aware of any changes.
>
> >>
> >> Looking forward to your input on this rather important topic.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Martin
> >
> > Here you have it and thanks for the idea ;)
>
> Thanks for the feedback, very appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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