Frameworks 6 Branching

[Volker Krause]

Hello everyone (and sorry for the massive cross-posting),

we are nearing an important milestone in the KDE Frameworks 6 development, 
branching and thus splitting the development of KDE Frameworks 5 and 6.

Slightly behind the plan from Akademy this is currently scheduled for the first 
week of January.

>From that point on, KDE Frameworks 5 is considered feature-frozen, feature 
work should continue to happen in the master branch, primarily targeting KF6 
then. Bugfixes of course can and should be backported for quite some time to 
come, and KF5 releases will continue with the same pattern as previously. At 
some future point we might start to increase the interval between releases 
though, as the amount of changes decreases.

If you are using kdesrc-build all this should hopefully be transparent. Make 
sure to update to the latest version though and set already existing 6 builds 
to use the now existing "kf6-qt6" branch group.

On the CI we still have some work to do to keep the existing Qt 6 Plasma and 
application builds working after branching (as those essentially rely on a 
Qt6-based KF5, not a "proper" KF6), at least for a transitional period.

Despite all the careful planning and preparation it is quite possible that 
this will cause disruptions of some form though, two major versions of 
Frameworks at the same time is uncharted territory for our tooling.

If you have input or questions about this or want to help, the bi-weekly KF6 
meeting happening tomorrow at 17:00 CET in https://meet.kde.org/b/ada-mi8-aem 
would be a good place to discuss this. If you can't make it, adding your 
topics to the agenda (https://invent.kde.org/teams/frameworks-devs/kf6-workboard/-/issues/22) is also an option. Email (kde-frameworks-devel) or chat 
(#kde-devel) work as well of course.

Regards,
Volker
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