New releases for bugfixes

Justin Zobel justin.zobel at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 17:59:45 BST 2022


Same here, I like the idea of point releases to fix impactful bugs.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:56 PM Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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