Plasma 5.27.12

[Justin Zobel]

On 12/12/24 20:59, Oliver Beard wrote:
> Typically we don't bring features into bugfix releases. This would be something unexpected for downstream that may want to disable it.
>
> This could be a special case because of the significant benefit it could bring KDE — so unlike other features I don't think it's impossible, but you'd need to convince a lot of people and very thoroughly test it, and then we should advise downstream that we've introduced this.
>
> On 11/12/2024 21:37, Justin wrote:
>> On December 11, 2024 9:57:23 PM GMT+10:30, Jonathan Riddell
>> <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>>
>>      Plasma 5.27 is still in releasable state.  With the move to drop Qt
>>      5 from KDE infrastructure we probably only have one release left of
>>      it.  5.27.11 was in March 2024.  I'd like to propose 5.27.12 in the
>>      new year on Monday 6 January.  That is a busy release week with
>>      Frameworks, Gear and Plasma 6 beta happening on the Thursday but I
>>      think it's preferable to get it done before those three rather than
>>      after.  Does anyone have opinions?
>>
>>      Jonathan
>>
>>
>> What are people's thoughts on adding the donation popup into this last
>> Plasma 5 release? The popup for this could be set for January.

All very good points. If it's not possible that is understandable. I 
just thought it was an opportunity to catch some of those Debian and 
other distro users that still run Plasma 5 in our fundraising sooner.

Justin