KF5 kio-extras and future releases

[Heiko Becker]

On Sunday, 28 April 2024 12:43:05 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> I have not included a package of the kf5 branch of kio-extras 
> in the KDE Gear 
> 24.05 release.
>
> [...]
>
> In my mind it's a no and i'll explain the reasons below, feel 
> free to disagree 
> or prove my points nonsense.
>
> As far as I understand kio-extras-kf5 was created because:
>  A) We needed a KF6 kio-extras so that KF6 apps can use extra-kio stuff
>  B) We needed a KF5 kio-extras that could be coinstalled with the above KF6 
> kio-extras so that KF5 apps can use extra-kio stuff
>
> Now, question is should we keep releasing kio-extras-kf5 or not?
>
> [...]
>
> It could happen that we need a very important bugfix to 
> kio-extras-kf5 and it 
> would be commited to that branch and we would need to do a release.
>
> But given how that doesn't seem super likely and how much of a 
> pain it is to 
> our release process to release it (we need to release two tarballs from the 
> same repo but from different branches) I would really really say, no,  we 
> don't release it with every single KDE Gear release (until we drop KF5 
> support), if there's any eventual bugfix we'll just release a 
> new tarball (in 
> the 24.02.x naming?).

I very much agree that the pain to release it together with gear isn't 
worth the gain having a (most likely) almost unchanged tarball every month. 
As said, if there's need we can just do a stand-alone release.

Regards,
Heiko