[kgpg] /: Merge branch 'frameworks'

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:21 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On dimanche 9 octobre 2016 17:43:15 CEST Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <kde at opensource.sf-tec.de>
> wrote:
>> > Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2016, 14:31:00 schrieb Luigi Toscano:
>> >> Rolf Eike Beer ha scritto:
>> >> > Git commit fe84703042f80c159cd4653d041b028385b67c81 by Rolf Eike Beer.
>> >> > Committed on 09/10/2016 at 12:15.
>> >> > Pushed by dakon into branch 'master'.
>> >> >
>> >> > Merge branch 'frameworks'
>> >> >
>> >> > KGpg will be KF5 based from KDE Applications 16.12 on.
>> >> >
>> >> > CCMAIL:kde-utils-devel at kde.org
>> >> > CCMAIL:release-team at kde.org
>> >>
>> >> Fixed kde-build-metadata (needed by CI, which started to complain), fixed
>> >
>> > I was about to do it, but you were faster. I wonder if "latest-qt4" should
>> > be set, it's not set e.g. for Ark, which is KF5-based, too.
>>
>> Yes, KGpg should have it set because the latest stable release is
>> still qt4-based and will be supported until the Applications 16.08.3
>> release.
>>
>> Otherwise qt4 builds can (should) be killed if the repo no longer has
>> any maintained qt4 release. See commit in [1] by Scarlett as
>> reference.
>>
>>
>> [1]:
>> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-build-metadata.git&a=commitdiff&h=5198abbad
>> 1c6a09b358e3f34844bd9430c8ac8e3
>
> I reverted parts of that commit afterwards.
> Please don't draw any conclusions from that commit.
>
> The current file says
>         "kde/*" : {
>             "stable-qt4": "Applications/16.08",
>             "latest-qt4": "master",
>             "kf5-qt5": "frameworks",
>             "stable-kf5-qt5": "Applications/16.08"
>         },
>
> I want us to keep being able to build the latest qt4/kdelibs4-based code from
> git, e.g. to compare behaviour and debug regressions.
>
> This doesn't require that these versions keep being "maintained" as such,
> just that nobody breaks them.

Please note that once a project ceases making Qt 4 releases it's
stable-qt4 entry should be set to empty.
In the long term though the concept of branch groups will be going
away completely in favour of a different concept.

>
> --
> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Working on KDE Frameworks 5
>

Regards,
Ben