[Kopete-devel] Post 3.2 Kopete and packagers

[Matt Rogers]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:55 am, Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11:40, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> > Not all of us feel that way. I would much rather have Kopete in
> > kdenetwork.
> >
> > Personally I don't feel Kopete has any need whatsoever to have
> > releases separate from KDE. We're getting mature enough that we don't
> > need these rapid development schedules, and it would be much better
> > to have an extended development cycle to properly implement features
> > fully before a beta period, instead of throwing them in half-baked
> > and half-tested so that we can release every 4 months.
>
> I used to think that way, but the problem is that protocols change all
> the time now. Assuming a one per year KDE release and protocols which
> change every 6 months, probably a few months before the release all
> protocols wouldn't be working which is really not a situation you want
> to be in. It also depends whether you think you could squeeze some
> protocol reworks into minor point release, since you'll be feeding of
> those till the next major release.
>
> Zack

We've done it with all the previous 0.7.x point releases. The only release not 
mandated by a protocol change was 0.7.1

Matt
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