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

[Jeroen Wijnhout]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 10:11, Martin Köbele wrote:
> 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?

Ok, one last try: Helios is _telling_ us that at this moment getting the 
latest release is not easy to do. You can say: oh, you just have to do this 
or that. Sure, it is possible, not easy. You can't _just grab_ the latest 
release, you have to find it first ;-)

best,
Jeroen
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