15.04 feature freeze exception for dolphin and dolphin-plugins

[David Edmundson]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El Dijous, 26 de febrer de 2015, a les 19:53:30, Emmanuel Pescosta va
> escriure:
> > Dear release team,
> >
> > Please consider a 15.04 feature freeze exception for dolphin [1] and
> > dolphin-plugins [2].
>
> None of those repos seem to have their KF5 branches in CI, how many people
> have built them? Are we sure their dependencies are properly released?
> detected by cmake?
>
> Has anyone sanitized the history of those repos?
>   I will answer myself, no, it has no branches, I don't think that's
> acceptable to be honest.
>

It does have all the tags from 4.x, and the history from them; checking out
4.3.4 will give you all the history to that point.
One could take that latest tag and git checkout -b KDE4.3, but I don't
think that adds a lot of value.


> > Both are theoretically ready to be shipped as part of 15.04 as the first
> > frameworks
> > based release.
>
> Has anyone actually been using this release. Is it as good as the kdelibs4-
> based one?
>

I can vouch that I've been using it since Christmas.

>
> > What needs to be done to release the KF5 based version of dolphin and
> > dolphin-plugins:
> > * remove dolphin from kde-baseapps
> > * merge frameworks branch into master in dolphin and dolphin-plugins
> >
> > The requirements for dolphin:
> > * Qt >= 5.4
> > * KDE Frameworks >= 5.7
> > * ECM >= 1.6
>
> As I already mentioned in another mail, you also need baloo-widgets that is
> undereleased. Who is going to review and release baloo-widgets for KF5?
>
> Albert
>
> >
> > I'm awfully sorry for being late!
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Emmanuel
> >
> > [1] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=dolphin.git
> > [2] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=dolphin-plugins.git
> > [3]
> >
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2014-September/019331.ht
> > ml
> >
> > PS: I want to say a big thank you to d_ed and vHanda who helped me a lot
> > with making a KF5 based release possible!
>
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