life sign & RFC

[Cristian Oneț]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> after some months of break, I am back online again working on KDE on
> Windows though with a lot less time.

Good to know you're back :).

> There are two things that are probably most interesting in the coming
> months:
> 1) a KDE 4.6 binary release
> 2) the emerge git transition
>
> The main question is of course in what order these should be done:
> doing the release first, and switching to git later or switching to git
> first and doing the release shortly after it.
>
> I personally prefer to have the git transition first, and do the release
> after that, since we can benefit from the things we can change with this
> transition:
>
> my plan looks like this:
> - do a last emerge branch/tagging so that people can use that version if
> they want
> - do the transition
> - move/remove stuff in emerge:
> remove kde-4.X categories and only keep kde category
>
> rationals:
> we normally don't use the splitting between the kde-4.X release
> categories and the kde category. this also doesn't work because e.g.
> win32libs do change in between and we can't guarantee for binary
> compatibility of our 3rdparty projects anyway (examples that occurred
> until now are jpeg6/7/8, png 1.2vs.1.4 and of course Qt). So instead I
> want to have one branch per release, e.g. one 4.6 branch which will be
> split away from the master branch somewhen around the time the branches
> are set up for KDE itself.
> Since Tortoisegit is not half as good as Tortoisesvn I also want to
> promote a different way to setup emerge: Beginning with a zip package
> (which might include python & emerge (& git)) you can install emerge
> somewhere, and start emerge with 'emerge --update emerge' which would
> then update itself to the most recent version. Ralf did some work on
> that already (until now only in the svn version, but I am sure we can
> easily adapt that to git) so I don't think this becomes a big problem.
>
> So what do you think?

The plan seems OK if the team has the resources to pull it off before
4.7 is released. Otherwise 4.6 could be skipped altogether.

Regards,
Cristian

> regards,
> Patrick who became father of a qt boy in february...
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