KDevelop 5

[Milian Wolff]

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 12:27:35 AM CEST Sven Brauch wrote:
> Hey people,
> 
> I think we should aim to do a 5.0 release real soon, we have been
> pushing that away for far too long imo. I think KDevelop 5 is working
> mostly fine right now, with the possible exception of the assistants and
> a few feature-regressions in the C++ plugin (code completion is just not
> as good as it used to be). Then again, the parsing is so much better now
> that it's most likely still a good deal for the users compared to 4.7.

+1, I don't want to stand in the way of this release anymore. Family and good 
summer weather are holding me up from contributing...
 
> I would in fact suggest to merge the assistantpopup-ng branch, submit a
> few pending reviews, and call it done for 5.0. Yeah, the code assistants
> (esp. adapt signature) have a lot of issues, but at least they're not
> getting in the way any more with that branch. Maybe the 5.0 release even
> wins us a few people who are happy to look into that? ;)
> I'd just prefer having 5.0 now and 5.1 in two months a lot over having
> 5.0 in two months.
> 
> What do you think?

I personally don't think that we should merge the assistantpopup-ng branch 
yet. The existing one works OKish imo and the last time I tested the -ng 
branch it had multiple big issues and from the post-commit reviews I've done I 
don't think all of them have been resolved yet.

If we release KDevelop 5.0 as-is now, I just think we should clearly 
communicate that it's a dot-zero release with known caveats. Everyone should 
know it, but people will likely not "get" it when we don't put it up in big 
fat letters somewhere...

Bye
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Milian Wolff
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