End of life policy

[Justin Zobel]

On 21/1/25 10:50, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dimarts, 21 de gener del 2025, a les 1:02:42 (Hora estàndard del Centre
> d’Europa), Justin Zobel va escriure:
>> Hey Everyone,
>>
>> I've only been a part of KDE for a few years now but I've seen it
>> mentioned multiple times and I'm guessing it's been discussed before but
>> I think KDE needs clearly defined end-of-life policies for it's
>> software. These are common practice and let users and developers know
>> what they should be using.
>>
>> KDE being a mostly volunteer-driven organization would be well within
>> expectations to only support the latest version of it's software.
>>
>> I'm sending this email in a hope of starting a productive discussion
>> around this.
> Which discussion do you want to have?
>
> Each product has it's own "supported releases" scheme.
>
> KDE Frameworks has "no" supported release, fixes will always come in a new
> release that will also include new features. (ignoring KDE Frameworks 5) (and
> ignoring infrequent very big breaking things that get their own release)
>
> KDE Gear has a stable release, fixes will come in the for of 3 stable
> releases.
>
> Plasma works the same as KDE Gear as far as I understand (ignoring Plasma 5)
>
> Independently released apps decide what they want as "supported releases"
> scheme (note that translation wise we don't support more than one stable
> branch)
>
> Is the discussion you want to have to change this?
>
> Or to codify it?
Codifying it in writing somewhere.
>
> Or something else?
>
> Cheers,
>    Albert
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Justin