Clarification on requirements for a release

[Christian Mollekopf]

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, at 05:49 PM, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Monday, 3 July 2017 17:43:15 CEST Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, at 05:15 PM, 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 a) playground was not peer-reviewed through kdereview and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
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Ok, thanks for your input. I fully agree that it should be possible to
> > make releases,
> > but not production releases, and that's what I'm trying to do.
> > 
> > I added you as a subscriber to the ticket, so you should be able to see
> > it now I think.
> 
> For the record and after checking the ticket:
> - an exception was offered anyway since the beginning, so there were no 
> blocker for the release
> - the never abolished process does not say that you can't release from 
> playground. It says (more or less) that you should not consistently
> release 
> from playground.
> 
> https://community.kde.org/Policies/Application_Lifecycle#Stage_2:_Stable
> 
> and this is in line with the "no i18n stable branches for playground",
> because 
> when you start thinking about stable releases, you are not experimenting 
> anymore.

Alright, that clarifies it for me.

I will continue releasing from playground until we're going for
production ready, and at that point I will go through review to
extragear.

Thanks for the clarificiation.

Cheers,
Christian