reflecting on 4.10

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 12 January 2013, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > actually, i care :) i rather suspected this was the case, given the
> > number of developers i've heard this same kind of story from. the reason
> > for moving to packages varies, but fewer KDE devs run master than
> > probably ever before. it seems a recent phenomenon, just as with you.
> > 
> > i'm personally very excited that more people will be running master
> > again. and i hope with an integration branch, that will extend even
> > further.
> 
> ... what I was describing here. More people running master and reporting
> findings. I'll sound like an old grump but it's one thing we did better in
> the past. I think we should actively try to restore that custom.

it became really daunting after the switch to git (just update this 150 git 
repos and you're good to go, how hard can it be? :p)

luckily seems to become more manageable those days as kdesrc-build becomes 
better (no, i still usually do it completely by hand but i'm another old grump 
:p).

maybe something that may help is some "master class" days on irc where we 
invite everybody (as in: anybody that already contributes in little areas or 
even totally new developers that wanted to start but are scared etc) with 
blogs and/or dot announcements at one/two dates, then use those sessions to 
walk people trough (kindof an install party;).

iirc we did something similar ages ago for javascript plasmoids, even tough 
was a task way less daunting than installing a big chunk of sc from master ;) 

Cheers,
Marco Martin