Plasma Mobile 21.05 release

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 9:01 AM Bhushan Shah <bshah at mykolab.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Albert,
>
> Thanks for responding,
>
> (Slightly restructuring your reply inline)
>
> On Monday, 3 May, 2021 10:18:33 PM IST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Would it be possible just to release from master?
>
> For me that should work just fine.
>
> > For me it seems like you're not going to use the stable branch to do a
> second release if release time is just a month, no? Or am i misundersanding
> the velocity here and you're actually planning to have some x.y.1 release too?
>
> Unless there is something really wrong with generated tarball or some critical
> bug, I don't plan to do x.y.1 release no.
>
> > Do we really need branches if you're going to do a release every month?
> >
> > I'm asking because creating/maintaining i18n branches is somewhat painful.
> > You have teams that work on trunk mainly, others that work on stable
> > mainly, so each time we "copy from trunk to master", we potentially lose
> > some translations, for big things like KDE Gear and Plasma we have
> > established this is what we do, but for smaller things we seldom do mass
> > copies from master to stable because of different translation teams working
> > differently.
>
> If you think that releasing from trunk is easier for you, I have absolutely no
> problem with it. I assume even if I am not doing stable branch, I need to
> notify the translators for translating master branch week before release?
>
> Thanks!
>
> > Cheers,
> >   Albert
> >
> > > if repo-metadata needs to be updated
> > > right away, please merge this MR:
> > > https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-metadata/-/merge_requests/53 ,
> > > otherwise when translations are moved accordingly.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > [1] It is technically in extragear but it is closely tied with kweather
> > > for
> > > now so let's release it together with kweather as unstable
>

Note that KF5, which also does monthly releases, also doesn't branch.
Mimicking how KF5 works would probably be ideal there.

Aleix