Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Tuesday 29 April 2014 21:54:17 Scott Kitterman wrote:
[snip]
> >For Ubuntu I can use the Firefox example. So can you explain why is KF5
> >different than firefox?
> 
> Firefox (and Chromium too) are handled like no other packages in the
> archive.  It's the best known (to average computer users) FOSS brand. 
> There's not much choice but to ship it and given the combination of library
> bundling and the presence of security fixes in essentially every release
> there's no realistic choice but to eat releases whole (despite viewing the
> necessity as being highly distasteful).  Canonical has also funded
> significant engineering resources to maintain Ubuntu Firefox packages and
> do extensive regression testing.
> 
> None of the above is relevant to KF5.
> 
> If I were to ask for the kind of update policy Ubuntu has for Firefox, I am
> pretty sure it would get laughed out of the room.  I've gotten exceptions
> approved for quite a number of packages, so I think I have a reasonable
> basis to form an opinion on what's likely to be approved.
> 
> The KF5 plan amounts to "Non-rolling distros: you're on your own."

Debian will be in the exact same position. Firefox and Chromium are just good 
examples of what to do to get your downstream unhappy and get your users non-
stable experiences.

The result will be that we will need to freeze at some point and do our best 
to keep up with patches for stable releases. Or maybe even drop KF5 for stable 
releases :-/

I don't know how other major distros with focus in stability work, but I think 
they will be more or less in the same position (I'm thinking in Red Hat, 
Centos, Suse and others here, but I might be wrong).


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