Request for delaying 4.8.4 request

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 6 de juny de 2012, a les 10:08:11, Dirk Mueller va escriure:
> On Monday 04 June 2012, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Not including this patch will mean not having fstab support until 4.9
> > > (since  we won't have 4.8.5).
> > 
> > Why aren't we doing .5 releases anymore? Those .5 releases have always
> > been
> > welcome when they were done (which went back and forth). I also don't see
> > a
> > good reason for skipping them: With a monthly release cycle, why leave 2
> > months between the .4 and .0 releases?
> > 
> > I think the .5 releases really need to come back!
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I'm fine with doing a .5 release when there is need for it, for me it is not
> a lot of effort.
> 
> I was not involved in the #kde-release-team discussion that decided this
> (see release-team@ mailing list archive) so I don't really know what the
> reasons were.

AFAIR The reasons where:
 * It wasn't on the schedule
 * We prefer developers to shift to bugfixing in 4.9

Albert

> 
> Greetings,
> Dirk
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