4.3.5?

[Dominik Haumann]

On Thursday 24 December 2009, David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 24 December 2009, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 00:20:44 Allen Winter wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > I think we should have a 4.3.5 release, and this should
> > > be the final release in the 4.3 series.
> > >
> > > thoughts?
> > > of course, this depends on Dirk and the promo team's holiday
> > > schedule.
> > >
> > > We should make a decision either way very soon so folks don't
> > > waste their time backporting to the 4.3 branch.
> > >
> > > -Allen
> >
> > I am not sure people backported commits as all I personnally heard was
> > that 4.3 was stopped.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > Did devels effectively backport to make it worth a new release?
> 
> No, but of course it could be done the other way round: announce 4.3.5,
>  then we'll backport. Although I'd kind of hate spending time backporting
>  all the stuff instead of fixing more bugs for 4.4.0...
> 

Understandable. However, bugfix releases are more likely automatically 
downloaded by distributions, while major KDE releases are not. So providing 
bugfix releases as long as we can affects quite a lot of people. Hence, 
backport + another maintenance release is quite welcome (if there are fixed 
bugs in the branch).

...of course nothing really new, but worth to mention once in a while.
That is: developers should be stressed more to backport ;)

Dominik