[Kde-extra-gear] Hello and let's start to bugging everyone with proposals :-)

[Jeroen Wijnhout]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 09:48, Martin Köbele wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6. October 2004 09:33, Jeroen Wijnhout wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 08:41, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 22:53, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> > > > 1 - CRITICAL ONE - About keg modules new layout
> > > > Recent thread suggests a new way to divide keg modules. One of most
> > > > appreciate sugestions is move keg-1,2,3 to keg-multimedia,
> > > > keg-utilities, etc..
> > >
> > > I second this proposal.
> > >
> > > > 2 - Please have mercy of packagers :-)
> > > > Create a keg_release_branch !
> > >
> > > This seems pointless to me. The applications are already tagged for
> > > releases. Distros are supposed to use the tagged stable program
> > > versions. Where's the problem?
> >
> > Quiz: what is the stable tag for:
> > Kile
> > Kst
> > Kimdaba
> > KMPlayer
> > Konversation
> > K3b
> > KBruch
> > amaroK (guess you know this one)
> > You have 20 seconds to answer ;-)
>
> I agree with markey. But to be more precise, packagers are supposed to take
> the latest release. Each project is supposed to have a little webpage where
> they offer and announce their releases. Those should be the basis for the
> packagers.
> Therefore I don't think that a release branch is necessary at all.

It is not about necessity, it is about convenience. Of course you can go to 
extragear.kde.org and find the apps maintainer, send him/her an e-mail and 
ask for the branch/tag. But that is hardly convenient. Since Helio is a 
packager (correct?) he sees things from a different point of view. Why not 
help the packagers, it is a small effort.

best,
Jeroen
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