Proposal for branching policy towards KF5

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le mercredi 24 juillet 2013 23:05:55 Michael Pyne a écrit :
> On Fri, July 19, 2013 00:21:21 you 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.
> > Adding a similar generic selection for qt5/kf5, we would end up giving 3
> > options to people who compile from sources: stable, latest-qt4, or
> > qt5/kf5-
> > based.
> 
> First note: There's a lot of different mailing lists with at least some
> interest in this discussion, so I've mailed them all for informational
> purposes... but let's keep the discussion limited to the kde-core-devel
> mailing list!
> 
> Back on topic, I have made an initial draft specification [1] for what this
> logical module group layer would look like.
> 
> In addition, there is a sample JSON file in the kde-build-metadata git
> repository, called "logical-module-structure" that one can view to get a
> feel for the proposed syntax/semantics.
> 
> I didn't want to write another parser, but JSON has no native comment
> support, so the documentation [1] is on community.kde.org (though perhaps
> that's for the best).

Slightly off-topic: I probably arrive a bit late, but have you considered 
using YAML instead of JSON? YAML is as light to write (if not lighter) than 
JSON, widespread enough to have parsers in many languages and does support 
comments.

Aurélien