kde-qt branches after 4.6.0 release

[Alexis Ménard]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Parker Coates <parker.coates at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03, David Faure wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> >> >  - due to the way that the master and 4.6-stable-patched branches are
> >> > created (with Git merges), it will be extremely hard for packagers to
> >> > extract patches from them. KDE developers didn't like the solution I
> >> > created that would accommodate everyone (the 4.5.x-patched branches),
> so
> >> > to make the developers' lives easier, we're making the packagers'
> lives
> >> > absolute nightmare. I'm not available for help, don't bother asking on
> >> > IRC.
> >>
> >> I must intonate a 'mea culpa' here because I was the one who proposed
> >> the current kde-qt.git branch model (
> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/61168 ). I did not
> >> know it would make extracting the patches nearly impossible, and it
> >> was not said at any point in the thread (or at least I cannot find
> >> anything other than the "OK, we can do that" in
> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/61172 )
> >
> > Yeah I think Thiago is pretty unfair here.
> > We can't be blamed for asking for convenience if we didn't know it would
> have
> > bad consequences on packagers. Besides I don't see what's hard about
> > extracting patches. Or why packagers would want to take most unofficial
> patches
> > anyway.
>
> Well to be fair, Thiago's been dealing with a lot of questions and
> complaints about kde-qt lately. I imagine it's getting to be a bit of
> headache for him. We also keep changing our minds about what we want
> kde-qt to be.
>
> Some (like myself) just want something that always points to the
> latest version of Qt recommended for KDE development. We don't really
> care about an accurate history, the ability to make merge requests or
> the handling of KDE specifc patches. Others just want a place to store
> and organise the KDE specific patches. Others seem to want kde-qt to
> serve as a way to work with Qt while keeping the KDE patches. I think
> the people in the second and third categories are probably more git
> knowledgeable, while many of those in the first category are not.
>
> As each group got more vocal, Thiago had to change the meaning of
> different branches in kde-qt. I can understand if he's frustrated.
>
> Maybe we need a brand new repository call qt-for-kde-dummies with only
> a single master branch. This would be the latest recommended Qt with
> the latest recommended patches, but no guarantee of a clean history,
> patch extractability, etc. I, for one, know I would use it.
>

And Qt Developers who want to share patches when they fix bad crashes so KDE
developers can work without waiting the next release.


>
> Parker
>
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