Clarification on requirements for a release

[Luigi Toscano]

On Monday, 3 July 2017 17:24:41 CEST Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, at 05:21 PM, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> > On Monday, 3 July 2017 17:15:19 CEST Harald Sitter wrote:
> > > the phab task is marked private.
> > > 
> > > on a general note I do not think this was ever discussed or agreed
> > > upon and makes no sense (how the heck is a playground project meant to
> > > evolve if it can't do bloody pre releases...).
> > > 
> > > making production releases from playground is not advisable because
> > > a) playground was not peer-reviewed through kdereview and
> > > b) for reasons I do not know playground projects cannot have stable
> > > translations, so you couldn't do maintenance releases afterwards
> > > without jumping through hoops to retain
> > 
> > Because playground is not supposed to have production releases, as you
> > wrote above, so we never tracked or enabled translations for playground.
> > It's part of the workflow.
> 
> I'm not looking for a "production release", I just need to release my
> code.
> I thought that's what the unstable prefix is about.

And I think that it's fine, if you mark that as preproduction. But I can't 
access the task, so I'm not sure which objections have been raised exactly.

> 
> > > even so there's plenty of stuff releasing from playground, which I'll
> > > argue is their business. just at a glance I am seeing like 10 projects
> > > that have production releases but live in playground.
> > 
> > Can you please list it, so we can fix them instead of keeping this a
> > self-
> > fulfilling prophecy?
> > 
> > > whoever came up with this bullshit should stop putting stones in
> > > people's way and publish the tarballs. releasing tarballs is enough of
> > > a chore as it is.
> > 
> > I beg to disagree.
> > You are free to release pre-production from playground. When you start
> > releasing stable stuff, you are shouting that you are not *play*ground
> > anymore.
> 
> Please clarify how to do that.

See above.

-- 
Luigi