KDE 4.2.5?

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 30 May 2009 6:51:15 am Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Friday 29 May 2009 22:51:08 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On Friday 29 May 2009 18:26:26 Allen Winter wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > Can we decide now if there will be a 4.2.5 release?
> > > If not, then that saves us some unneeded backporting work.
> > >
> > > Recall we stopped at 4.1.4.
> > > IMO we should stop at 4.2.4.
> > >
> > > Let's decide very soon and I'll communicate the decision to all
> > > developers.
> >
> > I would like to request something in between; still do some backports, but
> > only in some special cases, at least until 4.3final is out.
> >
> > The special cases I could imagine would probably be something like:
> >  - "grave" bugs (dataloss & too frequent crashes to make the app usable and
> > such) - and maybe with a CCMAIL: kde-packager
> >  - gcc 4.4 (and such)  compile fixes.
> >  - maybe other cases that I haven't yet thought of, but of a similar
> > "severity" and impact.
> >
> > That way, distributions and others who cares can get "blessed" backport
> > patches of the problems, which is kind of preferred.
> 
> Yep, for grave problems, we might want to consider a 4.2.5, otherwise I think 
> we should stop at 4.2.4 and fully concentrate on 4.3.
> 
Ok, since there were no objections I will send out a email about this decision.

-Allen