New releases for bugfixes

[Heiko Becker]

>> On Friday, 26 August 2022 01:35:55 CEST Ahmad Samir wrote: ...
> IMHO, ultimately, who does the work decides; it's the same 
> amount of work for distros either way, however it's more work 
> for the release teams; do they agree/have-time to this extra 
> work? AFAIK (I could be wrong), we have David Faure handling KF 
> releases, and Albert and Heiko Becker handling the Gears 
> releases.

I'd be willing to invest some time and give this a try for Gear. Even 
though I fear our tooling and/or some cmake parts will break (which may be 
a nice incentive to improve it).

However, besides the how-bad-do-the-bugs-need-to-be-criteria, which Nate 
addressed, the question where to release from is still open. Personally, I 
think it's best to release from the stable branch, not from a special 
release branch, which only includes the fix. Chances are least some people 
build and run from there and it is CI covered.

If we'll make these additional releases, I'd also like to collect some 
stats (repology should make that pretty easy) if (and maybe how fast) these 
releases reach distros.

Regards,
Heiko