Proposal regarding plasmate's release

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
<giorgos.tsiapaliokas at kde.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I believe that before we release plasmate we should
> reconsider the release strategy.
>
> The current situation is that
> 1. the plasmate repo is in extragear
> 2. plasmate's repo version doesn't match the one of plasma.
> 3. the master branch contains the KDE4 code and the frameworks
>     branch contains the KF5 code.
>
> I propose to
>
> 1. move the plasmate repo away from extragear
> 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
> 3. merge the frameworks branch into master and delete the frameworks branch
> 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.

So the plan is to be able to release Plasmate without Plasmate?

Aleix