KDE 4.2.5?

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Sat May 30 12:51:15 CEST 2009


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.
-- 
sebas

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