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 11:47:22 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Agreed on by who?

Read this list "Plan to transition to KDE Frameworks".

Albert