4.1 Bindings Milestone

[Sebastian Kuegler]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 06:03:15 Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 09:16:01 am Allen Winter wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > To avoid future confusion, rdale and I have added a new milestone
> > to the 4.1 Release Plan [1] specifying a milestone for a bindings freeze:
> >
> > 8 July: No new additions to the language bindings, except optional
> > bindings as permitting by the kde-bindings team.
> >
> > This is also the date of the artwork freeze and the RC1 tagging
> > and just 2 weeks before KDE 4.1.
> >
> > Please let me know about concerns or objections ASAP.

> Why do we need this? Bindings are code. Adding new bindings is the same as
> adding new features from my POV. This is quite useless and just adds even
> more overhead for developers to remember and the release team to manage.

On the other hand, bindings are kind of "downstream" to us. They can only be 
done once our interfaces are stable (which happens by means of freeze). So if 
we don't allow bindings developers a longer open trunk, we'd force them to 
chase a moving target and to stop working when they can finish off their 
work.

IMO, that grants an exemption. Bindings are just "special". :)
-- 
sebas

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