Future of KDE Development

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Monday 14 February 2005 17:35 schrieb Allan Sandfeld Jensen:
> I see 3.5 as more like a 3.4 but with a little feature-creep. The question is 
> if we would be better served with only one alternative branch, and instead 
> allow small new features in the applications from 3.4.2.
Hmm, from what I heard of the kdepim crew, they don't plan "small" new features :)
The idea of a feature extend stable branch was discussed with respect to KDE 3.3.x
and KDE 3.4 as well and you're surely right that having to commit the same patch
3 times doesn't sound appealing. 

But I think we can make up policies to make this easier: e.g. safe bug fixes are only
commited to 3_4_BRANCH and someone volunteering will merge the fixes commited
there to the other branches.

But a feature extended 3.4.2 requires freezes and times for translators to catch up,
so this is not a very easy thing - especially as such stable branches are very often
not well tested.

Greetings, Stephan