print-manager and wacomtablet to Plasma

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 1 de novembre de 2023, a les 1:10:55 (CET), Nate Graham va 
escriure:
> On 10/31/23 17:28, Nicolas Fella wrote:
> > On 10/31/23 23:23, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >> El dimarts, 31 d’octubre de 2023, a les 20:43:47 (CET), Jonathan
> >> Riddell va
> >> 
> >> escriure:
> >>> As discuccsed in Plasma meeting and just now with KDE gear release
> >>> spods,
> >>> Plasma would like to take over releases of print-manager and
> >>> wacomtablet.
> >>> This means renumbering the tars from e.g. 23.08 to 5.80.0.
> >>> 
> >>> Any issues?
> >> 
> >> What's the rationale for such move?
> > 
> > See https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2023-June/013081.html
> > where I originally brought up the topic
> > 
> > partly it's not relevant any more since we settled on releasing Plasma
> > and Gear together this time. The point about these being effectively
> > tied to Plasma still stands, and as such releasing them together makes
> > sense, for example because it makes it easier to deal with changes in
> > their interaction with Plasma
> 
> Yes, the idea is to move into Plasma the things that really only make
> sense to use *in* Plasma. 

It's true that print-manager is mainly a plasmoid/kded/kcm so if Plasma folks 
want to adopt it, I'm not against it, please propose a MR like 
https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-tools/-/merge_requests/39/diffs
(but in reverse)

> Having such software follow the Plasma release
> schedule prevents the problem of unsynchronized changes due to differing
> release schedules, which bit us multiple times during the Plasma 5 cycle.

That's not a good reason, Plasma developers need to remember that there's 
third party applications out there that may also want to tightly integrate 
with Plasma, so any breaking change that may affect print-manager or whatever 
other non-shipped-by-Plasma software should not be happening.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Nate