[k3b] 2.0.3 release coordination

[Johannes Obermayr]

Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 20:54:58 schrieb Jeremy Whiting:
> Michal, Johannes,
> 
> Albert asked on the mailing list a week ago what thoughts you had
> about doing a 2.0.3 release and got no response yet. We found out
> today that you may have been working on a kf5 port from looking at the
> git commits. Would you please weigh in with your thoughts about doing
> another release soonish or what your plans are?
> 
> We (kde-gareding team) would like to help poke the right people to get
> k3b quality back up to it's former glory. Any and all help is
> appreciated. https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=show&project_id=26
> <-- tasks we are looking into.
> 
> thanks,
> Jeremy

Hi team,

IMHO we should even take master and do a 2.1 release.
After I fixed some regressions at early August I have packaged that for ~ 1.5 months on Packman (openSUSE) without receiving any bug reports:
https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/show/Essentials/k3b

openSUSE requested to disable the helper due to security worries and to not get dropped from main distribution:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896601

I am also in contact with Jörg Schilling and try to get his SCCS repo for cdrtools (> 2000 commits only in cdrecord) to convert it to Git, publish it on Github and hopefully gain new/more contributions.
But that strong negotiation with an advocate of SCCS' advantages and Git's limitations is only an early step (maybe I will fail at that hurdle). ATM I can only publish a repo with all releases:
https://github.com/jobermayr/cdrtools/commits/master

He requested to use his "cdrecord -scanbus" command to check permissions instead of k3b's own implementation beginning at
https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/multimedia/k3b/repository/revisions/master/entry/src/option/k3bdevicewidget.cpp#L231
because - following his statements - we need exactly that permissions referring to Eduard Bloch (I assume https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/30/63 ?)
That would mean at least in case of openSUSE we need a new helper to give cdrecord root permissions what all distribution security teams will for sure decline ...

Btw. I am subscribed to k3b's ML now :)

Johannes