The case for a kdelibs 4.8

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Scott Kitterman vàreu escriure:
> 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.

Why is that bad, that is what was agreed when the freeze took place.

Albert

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> Scott K