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

[Martin Köbele]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 09:54, Jeroen Wijnhout wrote:
> 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.

isn't it most convinient for the packager to just grab the latest release?

Martin