Plan to transition to KDE Frameworks

[Albert Astals Cid]

On Diumenge 07 Agost 2011 12:45:12 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 June 2011 01:43:44 David Faure wrote:
> >> Once the 4.7 branch is created, the plan is to do the following:
> >> 
> >> - application developers can work in master as usual, no change there.
> >> 
> >> - we create a new branch in kdelibs (say, "frameworks") for the work on
> >> splitting up kdelibs and reworking dependencies. Initially, this work is
> >> based on Qt 4. We don't need Qt 5 to reorganize our own code.
> >> 
> >> - kdelibs in master is frozen. No work going on there.
> >> 
> >>    At most, "merging" the fixes from 4.7 branch.
> >>    (No git bikeshedding please, when I say merging it can be either
> >>    merge or
> >> 
> >> cherry-pick, I don't care) The idea here is: people who are used to "get
> >> everything from master" can keep doing that, without hitting the
> >> lib-splitting breakage. But at the same time, we don't really want to
> >> apply bugfixes to three branches (4.7, master, frameworks). At least I'm
> >> too lazy for that, I think two branches is plenty already. :-) Dividing
> >> our efforts is never a good idea. So the kdelibs-master branch would be
> >> basically dead (no work going on there, no release from that code),
> >> until the frameworks branch is merged into it.
> > 
> > With a bit of delay, I just started the above plan: I created the
> > frameworks branch in kdelibs (from kdelibs master), and I made kdelibs
> > master frozen.
> > 
> > To say this clearly: NO COMMITS ARE POSSIBLE IN KDELIBS MASTER.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm not sure this will work.
> 
> Looking at the commits in the framework branch so far (gitk frameworks) it
> seems framework is the new master.

Since you are citing my commit i'll answer.

I commited to frameworks because dfaure told me to.

> I think maybe people didn't get the memo that there isn't going to be a KDE
> 4.8?

No, we didn't.

Albert