Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday 22 November 2011 5:36:52 PM Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2011 18:42:46 Allen Winter wrote:
> > 
> > Honestly, I'm not 100% in favor of the rock hard freeze approach in
> > kdelibs. But the consensus is against me on that.  So I have no power to
> > reconsider.
> 
> We are talking about an exceptional case here. This is not about adding any 
> new functionality, but about adding an entry point for users who are willing 
> to support the KDE community. So I don't think the hard freeze rules apply in 
> the same way as for other changes to the libraries.
> 
> You say the consensuse is against you. I haven't heard any other opinions 
> against adding the patch than yours, though. So where exactly is the consensus 
> of not adding the patch?
> 
The consensus has been about hard freezing kdelibs.

If anyone from the Release Team wants to break the freeze for this particular patch they can speak up.


> > Another approach might be to create a libkjtg and then put in a
> > hard-dependency on that.  maybe ??
> 
> Certainly not. This is a simple patch.
> 
Not that simple.

And stop attacking me everyone.  I'm just the messenger.
Sorry I responded at all