Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu May 29 16:50:45 UTC 2014


On Wednesday 30 April 2014 at 09:19:57, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
> It seems that you really have a big issue with openSUSE because of
> bluedevil. At the moment that the Gnome team indicated that they didn't had
> any choice than to ship Bluez5 (as that the Gnome version only would
> support Bluez5), I contacted you with the question if Bluedevil would
> support Bluez5. You indicated that you were working on the Fedora schedule
> and that was the only schedule that was applicable for you. As that Bluez4
> and Bluez5 can not be co- installed we had to make a choice. Either to ship
> whatever we had (which was a git snapshot) or to destroy the Gnome desktop.
>  Strangely enough at this moment there is still no other release than the
> 2.0-RC1 which was released after the release of Fedora20.

And strangely enough, we (Fedora) also got blamed by Alex for shipping a 
prerelease BlueDevil, when we were in contact with him all this time, he 
recommended us to go ahead with BlueZ 5, and slipping the entire Fedora 20 
because of BlueDevil was just not possible.

        Kevin Kofler


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