15.04 feature freeze exception for dolphin and dolphin-plugins

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 1 de març de 2015, a les 22:53:57, Albert Astals Cid va escriure:
> El Diumenge, 1 de març de 2015, a les 21:01:15, David Edmundson va escriure:
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > OK, I'll answer very clearly.
> > 
> > It's not being pushed "for the sake of it".
> > 
> > I think the KF5 version gives the best possible user experience.
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > A little bit.
> > 
> > It uses the KPart from konsole. Konsole is frameworks based. Unless
> > distros
> > work around it it doesn't load.
> > 
> > kdelibs4 KRatingPainter can't the breeze icons properly so everything
> > appears as 5 stars (it desaturates a grey icon). This is fixed in
> > frameworks.
> > 
> > It currently shares the same database as Baloo 5; that is going to change
> > databases which means anything using the old libs will stop working.
> 
> Ok, i'm tired of being the bad guy, do whatever you have to do to make it
> the release happen and tell me all the extra repositories that need to be
> part of the release.

You have approximately 3 hours to make this happen, don't know what you're 
waiting for to be honest.

Albert

> 
> > David
> 
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