Plasma 5.15 Kickoff Meeting Minutes

[Jonathan Riddell]

People:
kbroulik
fvogt
acheronuk
sho
d_ed
apol
tsimonq2
nicofee
Aix
notmart
leszek
bshah
pepo
ivan (late to the party)
ripper17

* 5.14 review
Smooth release, no major problems, nice additions. Lack of bling new
features for a nice video but polish is more important.

Jonathan told not to snapshot KDE neon before release time even if
this means delays to ISO creation

5.15 features etherpad to be made at start of cycle and put in IRC /topic

phab 5.15 task created, can be used to track other tasks
https://phabricator.kde.org/T9887

* 2019 releases
Keep 4 month release cycle, 3 releases a year, Jonathan to make 2019 timetable

* LTS cycle
Jonathan to contact distros with dates of Plasma and Qt releases and
ask for desires for an LTS Plasma
* Jonathan to ask distros if further 5.12 LTS updates would be used
proposing every 6 months

* Qt and KF5 Deps
Qt 5.11 (or 5.12) is fine for Plasma 5.15
Dep on KF5 latest before beta, 5.55

* Phab item e-mail notifications
No e-mail sent to David for this item? To be investigated
https://phabricator.kde.org/T9658

* KCM porting
- Some to be moved to Plasma Workspace from Desktop for mobile use
case e.g. locale
- Plasma devs should try to port one or two each per cycle
https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/254/
- sho to commit to  Accessibility KCM

* Other Todo items were discussed with comments added to Phab items

* p-b-i build-dep to be lowered and this promoted to distros so it can
be added to older Plasma releases [Jonathan and Kai Uwe]

* Jonathan to add tasks from other phab board such as accessibility
one to 5.15 task on phab