Requesting freeze exception for JtG

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 28 d'abril de 2013, a les 14:05:45, Lydia Pintscher va escriure:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
> 
> <pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Last weekend we had the KDE eV Sprint at Berlin.
> > 
> > For various reasons, financial mainly, it was clear we need to raise
> > visibility of the Join the Game campaign in order to get more users to
> > sign up. One of the decisions taken was to add a bit of the Join the
> > Game text to KDE applications.
> > 
> > Screenshots available here:
> > http://www.elpauer.org/help-jtg/
> > 
> > To avoid confusion with the Join the Game program, there are slight
> > changes in "About KDE":  "Join KDE" and "Support KDE" have been
> > relabeled to "Get involved" and "Donate" respectively.
> > 
> > Why is it important that we get this in now?
> > - Because 4.8 is probably the last release before 5.0
> > - Given our history with 4.0, I wouldn't be surprised if users and
> > distributions avoid 5.0 as the default, or even altogether
> > - This means either the Join the Game propaganda goes in for 4.8, or
> > it will not arrive to our users before 18-24 months (~12 months till
> > 5.0 + 6 months for 5.1 + distributions delay + ...). No matter how
> > optimistic we are about releasing 5.0 soon, history shows there are
> > always delays.
> > - We cannot wait 18 months
> > 
> > There are no API changes involved. This is not exactly a "feature" either.
> > 
> > Code is available in the origin-KDE/4.7 branch here:
> > git at git.kde.org:/clones/kdelibs/pgquiles/kdelibs-jointhegame.git
> > 
> > If you'd rather see it in web:
> > http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fkdelibs%2Fpgquiles%2Fkdelibs-jointhega
> > me.git&a=shortlog&h=refs/heads/origin-KDE/4.7
> > 
> > 
> > Given that we are already feature frozen, I am hereby requesting a
> > freeze exception for the following:
> > - Adding a new menu subheader ("Support KDE: Join the Game")
> > - Adding new dialog with three tabs (KJoinTheGame). The text of these
> > tabs is essentially the same as the first three columns in
> > http://jointhegame.kde.org/
> > 
> > 
> > This will require a message freeze exception, which I have already
> > requested. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=132192199114831&w=2
> 
> Heya :)
> 
> I'd like to bring this up again. Where are we with this? Is now a
> better time to get this in? What needs to be done still and who can
> make it happen?

I guess now that we have a "not totally frozen" kdelibs you could just commit 
it to master and merge to frameworks and be done with it.

Obviously needs to happen before the Soft/Hard Freeze.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> Cheers
> Lydia
> 
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