Plasma and Frameworks Release issue

[Jan Grulich]

On úterý 26. prosince 2017 17:57:32 CET David Edmundson wrote:
> We have a frameworks and Plasma release schedule issue again.
> 
> We have new API (Package::fileUrl literally everwhere and I have something
> minor in kwin) that requires frameworks 5.42
> 
> This frameworks release comes out on the 6th of Jan.
> The beta comes out on the 4th.
> 
> We cannot make a release that depends on unreleased code.
> 
> The release schedule does explicitly say "depends on frameworks 5.41" and
> it's my fault for not noticing that when reviewing.
> 
> Last kickoff meeting we agreed that a beta should always be just after a
> frameworks release (see kickoff 5.11 notes) after the last time N times
> this happened, so I'm not sure how we ended up with those dates chosen.
> 
> For now options are:
>  - revert that change and  #ifdef use of appmenu protocol in kwin
>  - delay our beta release for a few days (tagging and tarballs can still
> happen on the scheduled day)
> 
> Personally I'd favour option 2.
> 
> David

I would personally go for option 2.

I also have a feature in plasma-nm which requires frameworks 5.42, which I 
just reverted because I saw in the schedule that we will depend on 5.41.

Jan