Request of a new release of qtcurve

Luigi Toscano luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
Thu Sep 6 16:25:24 BST 2018


Yichao Yu ha scritto:
>> I noticed that you created few tags for qtcurve since the move on kde.org. But
>> many consumers (like distributions) did not notice it and they are still using
>> the old tarballs, probably because there were any formal release on
>> download.kde.org.
>> Even if you get the sources from the git tag, you miss all the translations,
>> which are normally part of the final tarball generated with releaseme.
>>
>> Could you please create a new release according the release process, publush
>> it on kde.org? Please check and follow this document:
>> https://community.kde.org/ReleasingSoftware
>>
>> Please note that right now the translations only track the master branch. Do
>> you plan to tag from 1.9 or from master? If master, we should track the
>> translations from that branch too (and that would require at least one day to
>> have them processed).
> 
> Yes the release will be from the 1.9 branch. Before this falls off my
> radar, the last conversation was, (">" was me)
> 
>>> Let me know when you want to release and we can make a tarball.
>> As long as the translation is ready I think there isn't anything
> blocking in the code.
>> Do you need a tag?

Uh, I sorry, I didn't notice it.
> 
> and I don't think I've got a reply about that. I'm still a little bit
> confused about the translation/release process. Is the next thing I
> should do creating a tag and should I create the tarball or will
> someone else take care of it together with the translation or is it
> automatic?
> 

It's all documented in:
https://community.kde.org/ReleasingSoftware

If you use releaseme to create the tarball, it will inject the translations 
there. It also provide tagme.rb which creates the tag.

I will copy the translations to track the 1.9 branch, so that they can be used 
from tomorrow.


-- 
Luigi



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