Possible 4.3.0 blocker in the Konsole KPart?

[John Tapsell]

2009/8/4 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
>> - especially with multiple branches synchronization - which leads to
>> bugfixes sometimes not hitting latest 'soon-to-be-stable' branch (4.3 now)
>> or not hitting on time, as developers seem to be devoted to trunk
>> (sometimes even when 4.3 in this case is not released).
>
> svn makes this much more difficult than it should be, and as Thiago has opined
> about on k-c-d a few times we probably do it the wrong way around by
> backporting instead of fixing in stable and then forward porting. but again,
> svn makes this impractical.

Agreed.  I can't get the hang of svn backporting, and so I simply never do it.

With git, on the other hand, I backport daily.  It's so natural and
easy to bug fix in stable and forward port, while simultanously adding
features in the new branch.

Once we have git, I'd like to see this issue revisited.  I would
prefer that KDE got a reputation of "releases when ready".  Just start
skipping the release that we currently call ".0".

John