Getting Konversation releases rolling again (offering myself as release manager)

[Eike Hein]

Hi Friedrich,

Sorry for the late reply :) My feedback is positive as well. Thank you for the offer, I would also gladly accept.

As far as I know master should be reeleasable. The Qt Quick branch may have a few fixes I should look into porting back to master, but nothing that should block a release.

The Qt Quick branch is otherwise somewhat outdated vs. master so I would say ignore it for now. Some of the work done in there is still quite decent and worth dusting off some day, although it also needs porting to newer Kirigami components which since have become available.

Who knows, maybe the new activity you incite will cause us to become active again in turn!


Cheers,
Eike

On September 20, 2020 1:12:04 PM GMT+02:00, "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
>Thanks for replies, Peter & Bernd. So far only positive feedback :),
>thus am 
>slowly starting to prepare my work.
>Still waiting for reply from Eike though as well, given he has been at
>least 
>release manager before :)
>
>Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 18:22:31 CEST schrieb Friedrich W.
>H. 
>Kossebau:
>> My rough plan would be this:
>> 1. Get some 1.7.6 out ASAP to have all the translation updates (and
>few
>> fixes) finally arrive at users
>> 2. Prepare master branch to be ready for branch & release
>> 3. Propose Konversation for inclusion in Release Service for 20.12
>> 4. Make sure Konversation is fully integrated in Release Service
>cycle
>> 5  Profit and pull out again after first RS releases :)
>
>Today started to use self-built Konversation from latest 1.7 branch
>(using 
>German translation catalog), to dog-feed myself what I hope we can
>release 
>soonish as 1.7.6. Not being someone using all bells & whistles of what
>can be 
>done with IRC, but at least I cover my daily plain use cases for
>testing.
>
>What branches/version/packages is everyone else using?
>
>So unless there are objections (and once Eike has also replied) I would
>see to 
>target
>    Monday, September 28th,
>as 1.7.6 release date. Sounds good?
>
>And have that as last release from that branch, unless grave bugs are 
>reported, especially regressions that have made it into the codebase in
>the 2 
>years since 1.7.5.
>
>The next days I will see to make sure the release is done in the
>tradition of 
>the previous releases, like updating & adding an entry to 
>konversation.kde.org.
>To start, who is in charge of that website? Would I be the one to add
>the new 
>info there? If so, who could give me access? 
>
>Cheers
>Friedrich

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