The case for a kdelibs 4.8

[Dawit A]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 September 2011 20:01:00 Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> But one of my points is that we need features too, not just bugfixes.
>> Continuing 4.7.x releases solves the problem of bugfixes just fine, but
>> entirely fails to address the issue of features.
>
> But who is (or would be) working on features in kdecore | kdeui | kio | kfile?

Well this is over a month too late, but I have a enhancement change
for kcookiejar that needs to go into kdelibs/kioslave for KDE 4.8. The
patch has actually been pending for a merge since KDE 4.6. See
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54300.

Unfortunately, I do not know how to proceed with committing the
kdelibs portion of the patch without actually polluting the kdelibs
4.7.4 version. Waiting for the final December release of the final KDE
4.7.4 is one approach, but then the commit would be too late for the
feature freeze. We either need to exempt kdelibs from the upcoming
feature freeze or I need an exemption to commit these changes past the
freeze times currently established for KDE 4.8