Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

[Allen Winter]

Pau,

As I understand it, the position of the Release Team is a rock hard, solid freeze in kdelibs.
only bugfixes are allowed, period.

So this request will necessarily be denied.


On Tuesday 22 November 2011 5:15:41 AM Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org>
> Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:51 AM
> Subject: Requesting freeze exception for JtG
> To: kde-core-devel at kde.org
> Cc: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>, Lydia Pintscher
> <lydia at kde.org>, Claudia Rauch <rauch at kde.org>, Frank Karlitschek
> <karlitschek at kde.org>, "Discuss KDE e.V. work done at sprints"
> <kde-ev-sprint at kde.org>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Last weekend we had the KDE eV Sprint at Berlin.
> 
> For various reasons, financial mainly, it was clear we need to raise
> visibility of the Join the Game campaign in order to get more users to
> sign up. One of the decisions taken was to add a bit of the Join the
> Game text to KDE applications.
> 
> Screenshots available here:
> http://www.elpauer.org/help-jtg/
> 
> To avoid confusion with the Join the Game program, there are slight
> changes in "About KDE":  "Join KDE" and "Support KDE" have been
> relabeled to "Get involved" and "Donate" respectively.
> 
> Why is it important that we get this in now?
> - Because 4.8 is probably the last release before 5.0
> - Given our history with 4.0, I wouldn't be surprised if users and
> distributions avoid 5.0 as the default, or even altogether
> - This means either the Join the Game propaganda goes in for 4.8, or
> it will not arrive to our users before 18-24 months (~12 months till
> 5.0 + 6 months for 5.1 + distributions delay + ...). No matter how
> optimistic we are about releasing 5.0 soon, history shows there are
> always delays.
> - We cannot wait 18 months
> 
> There are no API changes involved. This is not exactly a "feature" either.
> 
> Code is available in the origin-KDE/4.7 branch here:
> git at git.kde.org:/clones/kdelibs/pgquiles/kdelibs-jointhegame.git
> 
> If you'd rather see it in web:
> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fkdelibs%2Fpgquiles%2Fkdelibs-jointhegame.git&a=shortlog&h=refs/heads/origin-KDE/4.7
> 
> 
> Given that we are already feature frozen, I am hereby requesting a
> freeze exception for the following:
> - Adding a new menu subheader ("Support KDE: Join the Game")
> - Adding new dialog with three tabs (KJoinTheGame). The text of these
> tabs is essentially the same as the first three columns in
> http://jointhegame.kde.org/
> 
> 
> This will require a message freeze exception, which I have already requested.
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=132192199114831&w=2
> 
> 
> --
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
> 
> 
> 
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