Including KDevelop in KDE Gear (for 21.12)

[Alexander Dymo]

Well, KDevelop 4.0 was more than 2 years behind KDE 4.0. And like Sven
said, after 4.0 we preferred feature-heavy releases focused on getting new
functionality out as soon as it was ready.



On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 5:30 PM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 at 09:36, Sven Brauch <mail at svenbrauch.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/30/21 7:04 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>> > Am Freitag, 29. Oktober 2021, 21:33:00 CEST schrieb Jonathan Riddell:
>> >> KDevelop did used to be part of the KDE SC releases and at some point
>> >> separated.  So one query is why did that release schedule separation
>> happen
>>
>> I looked in the archives and this seems to last have been the case for
>> KDevelop 3.3.x, released in 2006-ish, or maybe a bit later.
>>
>> This was > 15 years ago, completely different people working on a quite
>> different code base (the core C++ language support plugin was basically
>> completely rewritten *twice* since then!). So I'm not sure it makes
>> sense to be afraid of a potential ping-pong situation between being part
>> of KDE SC and not being part of it.
>>
>> Compared to 4.0 times, the project is now very mature and instead of
>> fast-paced feature development by a small core team, KDevelop's progress
>> is nowadays more a continuous stream of small fixes contributed by a big
>> crowd. So while releases used to be driven by the motivation of a few to
>> get new features out when they are done and then quickly follow-up with
>> stabilization releases, that is no longer the case.
>>
>
> Good answers :)
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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