Proposal for branching policy towards KF5

[Michael Jansen]

On Friday, July 19, 2013 12:21:21 AM David Faure wrote:
> After more live discussion with Sebas and Marco plus Aaron over a video
> chat, we came up with the following setup for the workspace repos (*) :
> 
> - the development branch for their next feature release (based on Qt5/KF5)
> will be "master".
> - *before* this happens, however, kdesrc-build / kde-build-metadata /
> projects.kde.org will need to be improved so that tools (kdesrc-build and
> possibly build.kde.org) can automatically select "the latest Qt4-based
> branch" (i.e. master everywhere and 4.11 for the workspace repos), on
> demand. This would also be the opportunity to implement "latest *stable*
> branch" which is 4.11 for most modules right now, but could be at some
> point 4.12 for most and 4.11 for workspace repos.

I would like to mention that this is only a solution for scripts. It does not keep consistency 
for humans and all scripts outside of kde. And consistency is normally only needed for 
humans.

Mike
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