[Kde-extra-gear] Farewell, so long, the four is coming ...

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Thursday 19 April 2007 16:06:32 Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> On Thursday 19 April 2007, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > > During this time, i planned a cleanup in applications as well, so i'll
> > > be moving all current trunk for branches/extragear/kde3 and will let on
> > > trunk only the apps effectively maintained, and new one's waiting to
> > > enter on kde 4 life.
> >
> > In case of K3b I think it would be ok to move trunk to kde3, but please
> > let me do that. After 1.1 I will start the KDE4 port and, thus, move back
> > to trunk. Sounds good?
>
> Done deal, is up to you decide in yout app as usual :-)

Thanks. Actually I just thought that the only reason I wanted to do it myself 
are possibly uncommited patches. So if it makes things easier for you we can 
arrange a move of k3b at the same time as all the other apps.

> > > - Should we commit ourselves to the ( not well ) implementated idea of
> > > STABLE tags ? I, and suspect Aseigo, want that as a "yes", since we
> > > still plan to launch apps packages. And how we will package this apps ?
> > > By app or by module ?
> >
> > I am already using the stable tag branch for K3b but not the tag. I don't
> > like the idea of an extragear package. K3b should only be released by me,
> > please.
>
> So, let's explain one of the ideas
> The idea is not us pick the package, the idea is release a set of last
> stable packages, so during the new KDE release, we will launch a "module"
> containing all latest released tarbals made by developers. So, as example,
> if you releases k3b 2.0 in september and KDE will be released in October,
> for convenience, we will have a package extragear-multimedia containing the
> 2.0 release independently ( or a link for your official package ), doesn't
> matter if you are already working on  2.1 or later. The package will be
> just for easy target of packagers.

Ok, I did not understand that before. This sounds like a good idea, indeed 
(indeed, I think I never used this word before.... :)

> Of course, the discussion is here to improve or change the system, the only
> sure thing about this is that i will release a extragear package per
> module, how will be done is one of this mail targets to solve :-)
>
> []'s