[Kde-pim] Kolab stable branches

[laurent Montel]

On vendredi 11 avril 2014 22:01:11 Mark Gaiser wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Christian Mollekopf
> 
> <mollekopf at kolabsys.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > As you know we have with Munich a large project that is going to be using
> > Kontact as their desktop client (hurray!). In order to stabilize Kontact
> > I'm going to maintain stable branches of all relevant repositories,
> > allowing us the move slower (for stability) or faster (because we need new
> > features) as required.
> > 
> > These branches are based on 4.13 and are hosted on Kolab Systems
> > infrastructure. If anyone is interested I can push them to github though
> > (it's just 4.13 with a bunch of patches from master).
> > 
> > For the work that needs to be done I plan to generally work on master and
> > then cherry-pick the result of that work to the stable branches, to
> > ensure all our work goes upstream.
> > 
> > For discussions that are related to the stable branches only, and that
> > don't concern upstream, there's a mailing-list,
> > kde-team at lists.kolabsys.com, you're welcome to subscribe if you're
> > interested
> 
> For clarity: https://lists.kolabsys.com/mailman/listinfo/kde-team
> 
> something I've been wondering but never asked. Why don't you just
> declare kontact 4.13 done, feature frozen and put it in bug fix only
> mode?

Because we will not freeze it as discussed on other mail.

> Then create a new branch for version 5.0 (kontact 5.0) on kde's
> git infrastructure and work on top of that?
> 
> It's not like a lot of people are working on kontact anyway. Just
> looking at the git log (kdepim repository), it's tons of small bug
> fixes by Montel Laurent and a bit of Sergio Martins commits mixed in
> between. But it doesn't seem like anything major is going on in there.

Interesting "small bug fixe"...


> 
> But what you are planning - feature wise - is going to be quite a
> change anyway so upping the major version should be justified, right?

Please read other mail it’s better

To conclude we will not freeze master we will create a 4.14 kdepim.

Regards

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Laurent Montel | laurent.montel at kdab.com | KDE/Qt Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
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Laurent Montel | laurent.montel at kdab.com | KDE/Qt Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53,  http://www.kdab.fr


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