Proposal for branching policy towards KF5

[Martin Graesslin]

On Friday 19 July 2013 01:39:47 Michael Jansen wrote:
> 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.
could we please stop the bike shedding in this thread? Thank, you. It is 
impossible to find a solution which fits everybody's workflow. All I can say to 
breaking a workflow is http://xkcd.com/1172

Cheers
Martin