[Kde-extra-gear] Rethinking position on trunk x branches

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Monday 13 November 2006 23:20, Eike Hein wrote:
> Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> > We're rowling against flow, since translator always look for head and one
> > stable branch.
>
> At Konversation we talk to translators fairly regu-
> larly, and most I've met cover trunk only, and don't
> concern themselves with branches. Thus losing trans-
> lation coverage is my prime concern.
>
> Konversation is being actively developed for KDE 3.x;
> we won't start porting to KDE 4 until next year. I.e.
> the trunk codebase, after branching for KDE3, would
> languish, possibly fooling translators into thinking
> we're just not doing anything anymore.
>
> Personally, I don't see a real need to branch all
> of keg for KDE3 and switch trunk completely to KDE4
> - keg doesn't do unified releases, and as we've seen
> in this thread, definitely not all apps are ready to
> switch to KDE4 development yet. Thus it makes more
> sense for those apps that are ready to work in kde4
> branches of their own IMHO.

Same is true for Amarok.

-- 
Mark