2 kirigami fixes for a point release

Christoph Feck cfeck at kde.org
Thu Feb 13 07:59:26 GMT 2020


On 02/13/20 08:42, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Part of the issue here is that Plasma has been known to add API to
> Frameworks and then immediately, without any delay, start using it
> (pretty much always breaking CI in the process)
>
> This means that other changes are likely being pushed into Frameworks
> by Plasma with very little delay as well.
>
> Consequently this means stuff is landing in Framework repositories up
> to the very moment it is released - a release that the next version of
> Plasma (LTS) then depends on.
>
> A better way of approaching this would be to freeze the Frameworks
> version you are going to require API wise at an earlier point in the
> Plasma development cycle. This would allow for a full Frameworks
> release cycle to pass where bugs encountered during the lead up to the
> Plasma release can be fixed.

You can find bugs in new code best if you are actually using it. I doubt 
that delaying using new API would help much.


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