Stable branches, including frameworks for Kubuntu LTS

[Nicolas Fella]

On 5/12/26 10:45 PM, 2Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dimarts, 12 de maig del 2026, a les 20:13:01 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa
> central), Marco Martin va escriure:
>> On Tue, May 12, 2026, 18:15 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> We (as in Techpaladin) pledge to take up the maintenance of such branch as
>>> long as it's supported, managing backports, testing and releases, as well
>>> as keeping the new CI nodes green
>> What do you think about it? Is something that looks sensible on the
>> upstream/community point of view?
> Apologies if the next question sounds a bit blunt I didn't figure out how word
> it in a somewhat better way.
>
> Is this something we want to pretend the community is doing?
>
> That is, do we want to try to make this "a KDE thing" or is it clearly
> structured as a Techpaladin/Kubuntu Focus thing?
>
> For me the second option makes it "simpler".
>
> Then my suggestion would be to just create "vendor" branches like the ones
> that we have for example in kleopatra/mimetreeparser/friends
>
>    gpg4win/23.10
>    gpg4win/24.05
>    gpg4win/gpd-5.0
>    gpg4win/gpd-5.1
>
> So create something like kubuntufocus/26.04
>
> Maybe it would even make sense to create such branches for KDE Plasma 6.6
> (after final 6.6.6 is released) and KDE Gear 25.12?

I assume this would be shipped in *upstream* Kubuntu 26.04, not some 
derived version of that?

If that's indeed the case then I'm okay with a more neutral name like 
Frameworks/6.24. Doesn't matter that much who is doing it.