Plan to transition to KDE Frameworks

[Stephen Kelly]

Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> 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

Yes, I should have been more clear that there isn't supposed to be a kdelibs 
4.8.