Frameworks / Plasma/ Gear Release Schedule Plan
christoph at cullmann.io
christoph at cullmann.io
Sat Sep 9 12:49:55 BST 2023
On 2023-09-05 23:08, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dimarts, 5 de setembre de 2023, a les 22:42:13 (CEST),
> christoph at cullmann.io va escriure:
>> On 2023-09-04 22:59, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> > El dilluns, 4 de setembre de 2023, a les 18:50:45 (CEST), David
>> > Edmundson va
>> >
>> > escriure:
>> >> Following on from the last Akademy we checked where we were with our
>> >> development progress in a meeting and settled on the following plan
>> >>
>> >> for all 3 major parts:
>> >> - In KDE Gear master will be open for Qt6 code to land for those
>> >>
>> >> ready to move. Not all apps need to port.
>> >
>> > For the trigger happy among us...
>> >
>> > This is a plan/proposal, let's give people at least one week to
>> > comment/
>> > disagree on it before making master Qt6-only for Gear apps.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> yes, good point.
>>
>> Just a technical question: if we do this after that period, what is
>> the process to do it for an application belonging to Gear?
>>
>> Will it just be sufficient e.g. for Kate to drop the Qt 5 variants in
>>
>> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/blob/master/.kde-ci.yml?ref_type=hea
>> ds
>>
>> and
>>
>> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml?ref_type=
>> heads
>>
>> and require KF 6 + Qt 6 in the CMake files or is there additional
>> stuff
>> that
>> needs updates to avoids one breaks stuff?
>
> My guess is what you are describing plus updating things in
> repo-metadata, i
> can think of
>
> dependencies/logical-module-structure
> to update the branch info (i.e. kf5-qt5 won't be master anymore, i
> guess
> point it to the latest stable branch)
>
> dependencies/dependency-data-kf6-qt6
> to update the dependency info
> But this is autogenerated by Nico scripts nowadays so... maybe not?
> or prod
> him to run the script?
>
> projects/*/*/i18n.json
> to update the i18n branch information
>
> Anything else I am missing?
Hi,
Thanks for the additional pointers.
Given no one did seem to oppose so far, I would consider to switch Kate
to Qt 6 in master next Wednesday and start the bit Qt 6 run :)
(If nothing comes up here)
The everybody had a week to chime in.
Let's make our Qt 6 based 'bundled' release next year a good one ;)
Greetings
Christoph
>
> Cheers,
> Albert
>
>>
>> Greetings
>> Christoph
>>
>> >> - The KDE Gear release will move by 2 months to allow for the extra
>> >>
>> >> time needed for testing initial Qt6 changes
>> >>
>> >> - An Alpha will be made in November (a soft freeze in Plasma terms)
>> >>
>> >> - Betas/RCs will be made throughout December and January (3 releases,
>> >>
>> >> 3 weeks apart)
>> >>
>> >> - Final release of all 3 major parts in sync in February
>> >>
>> >> Due to the delay of KDE Gear by an additional patch release of 23.08
>> >> will be made.
>> >
>> > Or maybe even two if there's bugfixes flowing.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Albert
>> >>
>> >> David Edmundson
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