KDE 4.4 Beta1 Tagging ahead

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On Monday 30 November 2009 15:29:58 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Monday 30 November 2009 15:04:05 Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Monday 30 November 2009 08:44:28 Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > On Thursday 26 November 2009, Tom Albers wrote:
> > > > > want to ship outdated betas, since that makes bughunting less fun.
> > >
> > > ok, I'll tag tonight Beta1. Okay with everyone?
> >
> > Not ok with me.
> > Not until we have a fix for qtbug-5588 in kde-qt and I have a little bit
> > of time to make sure KOrganizer can work again with that fix.
> >
> > Ordinarily I wouldn't be such a pain about an upstream bug, but in this
> > case I need the warm-fuzzy of seeing KOrganizer run again before
> > calling it "beta".
> 
> I think an upstream bug should not hold up our beta release. We can add
>  this information to the announcement, so it's clear that korganizer
>  doesn't work. As it's one relatively isolated issue, the patch is already
>  queued in Qt (ha!) and we clearly say "this eats kittens (cittens)", I
>  think that it's OK to move forward. Holding up the beta doesn't buy us
>  anything at this point, it will just get us less testing.
> 
> One thing I'd be interested in, to gauge the worst case scenario, when is
>  Qt 4.6.1 planned? Hopefully before our planned 4.4.0 release date ...
> 
We have lots of upstream bugs and we don't even know if they are all reported 
to Qt tracker, as Alexis recently noted in a mail.
Also it's very unclear why we have kde-qt as it lags behind qt git repo as you 
told me the other day when I got a backtrace of yet another qt-related crash 
with some applet.
What will distros ship as Qt with the beta? What is the best Qt source to have 
as a trunk devel to benefit from latest patches? 
Currently Qt crashes make it very unclear what state some software is.

Anne-Marie