The case for a kdelibs 4.8

Scott Kitterman kde at kitterman.com
Thu Sep 29 19:50:08 BST 2011


On Thursday, September 29, 2011 08:01:00 PM Kevin Kofler wrote:
> On Thursday 29 September 2011, Heinz Wiesinger wrote:
> > From what I remember from the desktop summit the picture you draw here
> > is
> > quite an exaggeration of what is actually happening.
> > 
> > kdelibs 4.7 is meant to be frozen for new features, but not for
> > bugfixes.
> > Bugfix releases of kdelibs-4.7 happenend and I'm sure will continue on
> > happening. As for the versioning I don't see why one of those bugfix
> > releases couldn't be rebranded as 4.8.0 if that makes things easier
> > (that
> > was even briefly mentioned at the release team BoF). It does not solve
> > feature backports of course.
> 
> 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.

Even worse, features have already creeped into the 4.7 branch because they are 
needed and there's no 4.8 branch, so this isn't a theorectical point.

Scott K






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