[kde-promo] The name of Applications 4.14 + 1 - how about splitting into 4-part and 5-part

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Jul 17 21:41:50 UTC 2014


El Dijous, 17 de juliol de 2014, a les 23:40:02, Andreas K. Huettel va 
escriure:
> > > >  * My suggestion is call it "KDE Applications $YEAR.$MONTH", i.e. if
> > > >  we
> > > >  keep
> 
> [...]
> 
> >  okular-14.12.0.tar.xz contains Okular 0.21.0
> >  kate-14.12.0.tar.xz contains Kate 3.15.0
> >  konsole-14.12.0.tar.xz contains Konsole 2.15.0
> >  kdepim-14.12.0.tar.xz contains KMail 5.0.0
> 
> Alternative suggestion... please consider splitting the release into a 4 and
> a 5 part (which are released together)!
> 
> This would have the big advantage that each tarball / resulting RPM / ...
> immediately indicates what "stage" of KDE it belongs to.
> 
> It would create much less confusion than the introduction of a new
> additional numbering scheme. (Yes I realize it may involve work.)

Care to elaborate on why would it create less confusion?

"KDE Releases Some Applications 4.17 and Some Applications 5.2" looks like a 
pretty confusing news headline to me :D

Cheers,
  Albert


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