New Feature for kdelibs (Was: The case for a kdelibs 4.8)

[Dawit A]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, November 7, 2011 19:32:15 Dawit A wrote:
>> >> 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.
> ...
>> Right. The patch simply moves the idea of session cookies from being a
>> global configuration option to a site specific option. That is it gets
>> rid of the all or nothing approach currently employed. That gives the
>> user a lot more control of how they deal with cookies.
>
> can you explain why it must go into 4.8? it's been waiting since 4.6, and i
> didn't find a description of what requires it in 4.8 ...
>
> as far as i can see, it's a feature enhancement that isn't strictly required
> by anything (though it is very nice to have indeed), so it should go into the
> frameworks branch.

That is fine for the kdelibs portion, but what do you suggest be done
with the kde-baseapps portion of the patch ? Wait until 4.8 gets
branched ? With all the pending framework changes coming, I would be
surprised if the patch would not end up falling through the cracks. I
hate to see some one's good work, which I am is useful to many users,
go to waste like that.

Anyways, I personally do not have any specific reason for this patch
going into the 4.8 release except to state that I won't have the time
to see it merged past that release point. Someone else would have to
pick it up and do it, which I very much doubt will happen. There are
very few developers that are interested in working on the low level
stuff in KDE.