What to release from where?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 21 June 2011, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 of June 2011 02:46:13 Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > because of all the trouble the moving migration caused so far,
> > As of now, Dirk had to ask before every release, what he should release
> > from where.
> > I thought it might be a good idea to make things more ... written-down.
> > 
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MovetoGit/Progress
> > 
> > I hope I got the current status correctly. If not, feel free to comment
> > here, make changes directly or hit me on IRC (icwiener).
> > 
> > What I am especially interested in is feedback from you, Dirk,
> > on how helpful this might be if properly maintained.
> 
> Excellent, thanks!
> 
> A small question to release-team here (and repo maintainers), would it be
> doable to have the same branch names for all packages released under "KDE
> SC" umbrella?

Yes, please.

> Currently, while KDE/${major}.${minor} is obviously the most popular one,
> variations exist. 

Sounds good IMO.

> I believe it doesn't help from packager point of view wrt
> scripting the process - and certainly makes things a bit more complex from
> distro packager point of view (hunting down all branching/tagging variants
> from all project repos,
> Sure it applies mostly to distros that track code from repositories - not
> just when tarballs are released - which is minority I believe.
> 
> "${major}.${minor}" branch names can be also confusing (for newcomers but
> still) in case of apps that provide own versioning as well, for instance
> Okular in 4.6 branch reports itself as Okular 0.12.4, analogy with Marble
> (randomly picked examples here, no strings attached).
> 
> Adding 'KDE/' prefix to branch names would without doubt denote that this
> particular branch is to be used for fetching and tagging for KDE SC
> distribution (when certain application is released so probably tagged
> individually as well).
> 
> I understand however that consistency on this field and on tag names
> imposes certain "KDE workflow" (to "natively" use KDE/${major}.${minor}
> branch names) on apps that aim to "sell themselves on their own"

Should they maybe be in extragear then ?

Alex