Proposal regarding plasmate's release

[David Edmundson]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Antonis Tsiapaliokas <
antonis.tsiapaliokas at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 01:51:02PM +0200, Marco Martin wrote:
> > Any news on this?
> > besides plasmate, the repository has other utilities (plasmoidviewer,
> > plasmaengineexplorer, plasmathemeexplorer, cuttlefish) that really NEED
> to be
> > released
>
> Yes, I am sorry for the delay.
>
> So lets summarize a bit.
>
> > On Thursday 29 January 2015, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> > > 1. move the plasmate repo away from extragear
>
> As it has been mentioned in previous email, we must first mail the
> kde-core-devel.
> As a new name i suggess the plasma-sdk and it will be under the
> kde/workspace.
>

Can it go under kde/workspace if in future it will depend on something in
extragear?

I still support doing the rest, and making / release.. I'm just not sure we
can do the move and release it with plasma.


>
> > > 2. release the plasmate repo together with plasma and all the
> applications
> > >      in it will follow plasma's version number. So there won't be
> > > plasmoidviewer 2.0
> > >      but plasmoidviewer 5.x
>
> So i will prepare a patch which will change the versions of
> plasmoidviewer, plasmaengineexplorer, plasmathemeexplorer, cuttlefish and
> plasmate.
> The version will be the same as Plasma's(5.2.90).
> And this repo will be released together with the Plasma's repo.


>
> > > 3. merge the frameworks branch into master and delete the frameworks
> branch
>
> So as it has been suggested we should tag the master branch, and after
> that we should merge
> the frameworks into the master, and delete the frameworks.
>
> Also in the previous mails, we said that we should the merge(frameworks
> into master)
> and then rename the repo in order to avoid changing the metadata twice.
>
> > > 4. make the PLASMATE_BUILD_WITH_KDEVPLATFORM off(false) by default and
> > > add a
> > >      message that will inform the user that the plasmate application
> > > isn't ready yet
> > >      for production.
>
> I will create a patch for this one too.
>
> So any objections/suggestions?
>
--
> Antonis Tsiapaliokas
>
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