15.04 feature freeze exception for dolphin and dolphin-plugins

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sat Feb 28 00:27:49 UTC 2015


El Dissabte, 28 de febrer de 2015, a les 00:40:45, David Edmundson va 
escriure:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El Divendres, 27 de febrer de 2015, a les 11:04:57, Vishesh Handa va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > > > 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?
> > > 
> > > Does it really need to go through review? It has been shipped with KDE4.
> > 
> > I don't know, you tell me, how much has the code changed?
> > 
> > > We can just make a release. The KF5 port has been ready for a long time.
> > 
> > I
> > 
> > > just haven't pushed to make a release of it, since it's difficult to
> > > know
> > > where to release it. I suggest we release it part of the application
> > > release, if Emannuel is alright with that.
> > > Otherwise Dolphin can be released without Baloo.
> > 
> > Do you think our users would appreciate losing those features?
> > What is our goal in here?
> > Release a KF5-based Dolphin for the sake of releasing a KF5-based Dolphin?
> > Or do we want to give our users the best posible user experince?
> > 
> That's a somewhat loaded question.

It is not a loaded question, it's an honest question, which by answering with 
another question you're trying to not answer.

> Which do we want to give our users? The one which is being actively
> supported or the one that isn't.

Is suddenly kdelibs4-Dolphin broken?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> David



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