Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 23 November 2011 18.25.23 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> > I too think that a much less invasive patch has to be the first step to
> > getting something accepted.
> 
> As I said in k-c-d, the patch is deliberately invasive. It's no accident.

The invasive nature makes the patch a high risk to integrate into a stable 
branch.  It would be more appropriate for the frameworks, not so much for the 
frozen kdelibs.

I think everyone understands your goal, and why you made it deliberately 
invasive.  But the first priority has to go to the stability of kde apps.  And 
when I last hacked the menu-merging code, I was surprised of its complexity 
and how easy it is to break one of the millions of apps using this code.
So, your intention to be extra invasive means the patch is too high risk for 
kdelibs.

As 2 other people also have suggested, I think you should  try to get your   
patch into frameworks, not kdelibs.  And try a much simpler approach (just 
some text added and maybe a new tab) for kdelibs.

Hope that clarifies my previous mail :)
-- 
Thomas Zander