Kig Master Branch for KDE 14.12

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Tue Nov 4 11:29:00 UTC 2014


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El Divendres, 31 d'octubre de 2014, a les 14:49:47, Aleix Pol va escriure:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> wrote:
> > > El Dijous, 30 d'octubre de 2014, a les 13:32:26, David Narvaez va
> escriure:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > While going through my checklist for 14.12 readiness, I totally
> forgot
> > > > the obvious: merge the frameworks branch into master. I remembered
> > > > that now that the freeze is in place, so I am wondering if I can get
> a
> > > > last minute chance to merge my frameworks branch if the 14.12
> branches
> > > > have not yet been created.
> > >
> > > Question, is the frameworks branch a pure port of the master branch to
> KF5
> > > or
> > > it has new features?
> > >
> > > If it has new features that we want users to be able to use, i'd say go
> > > ahead
> > > and merge it, if it's "the same thing" but just ported to KF5, i'm
> > > undecided
> > > (would welcome others opinions).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > >   Albert
> > >
> > > > Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.
> > > >
> > > > David E. Narvaez
> >
> > I'd say it depends on the maintainer, but in general it's more work to
> > maintain 3 branches (qt4 and frameworks, and KDE/14.12).
>
> How's that an issue? Speaking theoricatelly since he already merged
> frameworks
> to master yesterday, if we did not allow it because it was past the freeze
> he
> could have done it after the freeze and still only have 2 branches to
> maintain
> Applications/14.12 and master, no?
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
> >
> > Aleix
>
>
Yes, but it's still 2 different code-bases and merges need to be taken with
a pinch of salt.

Aleix
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