Do we plan to create 4.8.6?

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Friday 17 August 2012 18:44:44 Rick Stockton wrote:
> (3) If support for 4.8 has ended (with 4.8.5), then just the one
> "Combined" Fix for both problems.
> - - -
> 
> Please advise how I should proceed. Thanks!
According to the release schedule 4.8 has ended [1]. Already 4.8.5 was an 
uplanned release done due to problems with 4.8.4. I consider it as extremely 
unlikely that there will be yet another 4.8 release.

But it's still possible to just commit to the branch and packagers eventually 
will pull the patches and do another release. Personally I would not care 
anymore about it as it is extremely unlikely that distros will random cherry-
pick patches for minor issues. All distributions shipping 4.8 have already 
released or are in the process of releasing and are very reluctant to change 
the packages. E.g. Debian Testing is currently at 4.8.4, the same with Ubuntu 
12.04.

On the other hand that might mean that the patch will be picked if they 
eventually bring 4.8.5 to their users.

My advice would be to focus on 4.9. At KWin we stopped supporting 4.8 once 
4.8.4 had been released.

Cheers
Martin

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Release_Schedule
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