patches too big for kdelibs 4.8?

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 25 d'abril de 2012, a les 20:31:37, Bernd Buschinski va escriure:
> Hello,
> 
> I have kjs patches that I think are too "big" for KDE/4.8.
> 
> Now I wonder... where should I commit them to?
> As far as I know kdelibs currently has "3" branches.
> 
> master: which I was told is like dead
> 
> KDE/4.8: bug fixes only
> 
> framework: KDE5
> 
> 
> Well, you could call these patches "bug fixes" as they fix some missing
> javascript functionality and make some websites work. 

That's a bugfix in my book.

Cheers,
  Albert

> But you could also
> call them new features as you now can use more javascript functionality.
> Personally I think calling them bugfixes feels somehow sneaky, to just get
> them in KDE/4.8.
> 
> So is frameworks the correct branch for me?
> I think no, as framework does not have a fixed release date it too far away
> before it reaches the user.
> 
> I would love to have a KDE/4.9 branch, but looks like it is not planned.
> As I plan to further hack on kjs there might be more patches coming and if
> possible I would love to keep the kdelibs<->my kjs patches distance close.
> 
> After all the helpful review and the intense ecmascript testsuite I feel
> rather confident that these patches work.
> But as you might know the web is big ;-)
> So big that it is impossible for to surf on all existing websites. And again
> 5.0 might be "far" away, beside from the fact that the topic in #kde-devel
> says "no new features in kdelibs".
> 
> So as I am a bit lost here, back to my basic question, where should I commit
> to? Or how should I continue?
> 
> regards,
> Bernd