New releases for bugfixes

[Jonathan Riddell]

As a distro packaging it's much easier and more reliable to just let the
new version get added automatically to our builds.  As a release manager it
shouldn't be any harder to automate making a new bugfix release.  I do this
already for Plasma when requested.  It should be the default method.

Jonathan


On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 17:55, 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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