KDE Frameworks 5: Rhythm

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 21 January 2012, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 January 2012 16:17:38 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> >> Kevin Ottens wrote:
> >> > There's three main reasons for this rhythm:
> >> >  * Qt 5.0 feature freeze is upon us now;
> >> >  * CMake 2.8.8 will be released in April;
> >> >  * it'd be nice to release KDE Frameworks 5.0 at Akademy[*].
> >> 
> >> You mean 'some of the frameworks'? They won't all be done by then. More
> >> stuff will need to get into Qt before that's possible.
> > 
> > Yeah, I know a couple of them will need some merging scheduled for Qt 5.1
> > already (like equivalent to KSaveFile for instance). But if I reintroduce
> > the few words I forgot to type which were "a technology preview of" I
> > think it's doable. It means it'd build against "qt master" likely
> > earmarked to become 5.1[*].
> 
> Honestly I don't see a point in aiming so early. It makes mistakes and 'I
> thought it would behave like ABC' more risky and costly. I know you're
> 'only' talking about technology preview, but once a technology preview is
> out, some people will say things like 'We shouldn't change things
> significantly now that the technology preview is out' and there will be
> long threads on some mailing list somewhere.

I agree.
Also, we have already experiences with "technical preview" releases... ;-)

Alex