Releasing KDevelop 4.7

[Milian Wolff]

On Wednesday 25 June 2014 12:39:28 Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Saturday 14 June 2014 19:06:49 Milian Wolff wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > as discussed with Aleix and Kevin during QtCS, we want to release KDevelop
> > 4.7 asap. There are a few blockers still in master which I want to look at
> > now. Here's my list, please comment on what regressions you notices:
> > 
> > - assistant focus management
> > sometimes, the assistant gets focus while it should not, e.g. in the
> > middle
> > of typing which leads to a very awkward workflow
> > 
> > - project manager view focus management
> > sometimes, instead of copying code from the editor, one copies the file
> > from the project manager view. On paste, one then inserts the URL to said
> > fail. Again, very awkward
> > 
> > - cannot show multiple toolviews
> > this used to work (see mailing thread about that from a few days/weeks
> > ago).
> > 
> > Once that's in, I think we can release master more or less as-is. Please
> > take a minute to review your recent changes and make sure to polish them.
> > I'll branch off master into 1.7/4.7 branches next week. We could then also
> > release the first beta, hopefully. The final release should then happen in
> > July, lets say on the 20th at the latest?
> 
> I've now branched of 4.7/1.7 - these branches are now feature & string
> frozen. The translators are notified about this. I'll prepare a first beta
> release now and hope to then push a final version out in about a month. If
> we find any serious issues, we can always release a second beta or move the
> scheduled final release.

Can someone please start a release announcement for 4.7 beta 1 on the wiki?

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
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