Stable branches, including frameworks for Kubuntu LTS

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Mon May 18 16:44:22 BST 2026


To help move this forward, are there any formal objections to 
Techpaladin people (Marco, me, possibly others) creating stable branches 
for frameworks that we would maintain by backporting bug-fixes already 
on master to, and making releases from those branches as needed?

Nate



On 5/14/26 10:44 AM, Nate Graham wrote:
> On 5/14/26 10:38 AM, Allen Winter wrote:
>> not sure if this is clear:  you'll fix the bugs in the master branches 
>> and backport those fixes to the current release branch and to the LTS 
>> branch?
>> and you won't add new features as this is only about fixing bugs?
> 
> That's correct. This effort is about backporting public bug fixes 
> already on master, not doing private feature development.
> 
> Plasma and Gear already have stable branches that can be used for this; 
> the discussion here is really mostly about creating such a thing for a 
> specific Frameworks release so the same thing can be done for it.
> 
> Nate



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