KDE 3.5.10

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 18:52:39 Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On mardi 19 août 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 19 August 2008 schrieb Benoit Minisini:
> > > On mardi 19 août 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > > Am Montag 18 August 2008 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> > > > > On Wednesday 13 August 2008 12:53:21 Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > > > > I will tag KDE 3.5.10 on tuesday, 19th and prepare tars for
> > > > > > the packager. As the general interest in this release should
> > > > > > be pretty limited, it will be in the hands of the promo team
> > > > > > when the announcement fits best in the line of dot posts ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess by next Tuesday, it's less likely to be snowed under by the
> > > > > flurry of Akademy posts, and journalists had some breathing time as
> > > > > well. (I saw news sites with 2/3s of their frontpage articles being
> > > > > about KDE / Akademy
> > > > >
> > > > > :>).
> > > > >
> > > > > So let's target Tuesday, 26th, noon-ish. You can start synching in
> > > > > the morning then, and I'll have you confirm on IRC whether
> > > > > everything is in place. OK?
> > > >
> > > > Tuesday noon-ish is bad, I have Krabbelgrubbe between 9 and 11 :)
> > > > But we talk on monday evening.
> > > >
> > > > Greetings, Stephan
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm currently committing a not important patch to kicker for KDE
> > > 3.5.10. When exactly KDE 3.5.10 will be tagged? Is it possible to delay
> > > the tagging for one day or two?
> >
> > No.
>
> It's just that I didn't know the tagging date of KDE 3.5.10.
>
> Someone told me that it will be Aug. 20th, but that was just a guess.
> Apparently I missed the mail where you said it is today, so I was
> surprised.
>
> > 3.5 branch is frozen since ages - I'm just packaging it for the fixes
> > in the branch.
>
> I don't understand the last sentence: /branches/KDE/3.5 is not frozen, as
> many people put patches there yet, as I did with kicker.

feature-frozen. I'm not exactly happy with merging in things at this point, 
especially not the kicker patches you're talking about.

> Anyway, all my patches were committed in time (except the last one, but it
> was not important), and I hope things were tested enough!

I don't think that a lot of people are compiling and testing the 3.5 branch, 
so adding in features and patches that change behaviour in a codebase as 
fragile as kicker doesn't sound like a smart thing to do to me.
-- 
sebas

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