[IMPORTANT] stopping development

[Patrick Spendrin]

Am 13.09.2011 14:37, schrieb Eduard Sukharev:
> 13.09.2011 20:22, Patrick Spendrin пишет:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I just tried to push a fix to kdelibs master - when that failed, I was
>> told that doing that is restricted to David Faure. Since we can't fix
>> master anymore, we will stop fixing the kdelibs (and other repos that
>> have such restrictions) master branch for windows for now. This means,
>> simple bug fixes will be done only before release (e.g. when the release
>> branch has been made).
>>
>> NOTE: This means for you, that you should checkout kde-4.7 branch of
>> emerge and not use master.
>>
>> Patrick
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> Hi
> This brings a lot of (disturbing as the topic implies) questions:
> What does that mean to the project?
No idea yet.

> Will the end user suffer?
Maybe. Essentially we need to find a new way of working with the KDE
repository. The implied solution that is expected to work from the Linux
perspective is that all code should be reviewed and if it works, be
merged into master. Of course this means that code will only be tested
on the platforms where the review happens - which effectively means
Linux. This means that we either must review each and every patch -
which is unrealistic or that we will have to get our fixes in from time
using the normal way of review requests - which will slow down our work
and bind our resources. So instead, it might be easier to maintain
patches on our side.

> Will KDE on Windows team suffer from this?
lets see.

> How long will it last and what it takes to make things back as they were
> before?
No idea yet.

> 
> And for those who build with emerge - does that mean that one should
> probably
> set EMERGE_DEFAULTCATEGORY=kde-4.7
> in their /etc/kdesettings.bat?
> 
No EMERGE_DEFAULTCATEGORY has been replaced by specific branches in the
git repository. So if you want to build KDE 4.7, you checkout kde-4.7
branch of emerge and start building.

regards,
Patrick