New releases for bugfixes

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Thu Aug 25 17:56:15 BST 2022


make sense to me

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:55 PM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> Right now when we fix a significant bug in our software that may take a
> while to reach users to to the release schedule of its repo, we contact
> distros and ask them to backport it. This puts the burden on distros to
> react to us. I'm wondering how people feel about KDE instead making
> immediate point releases ourselves. Thus we would take responsibility
> for releasing fixes for our own regressions, and distros that monitor
> KDE infrastructure for new tarballs could be notified automatically.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Nate


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