Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread andrea diamantini
My idea about this concerns the way we let other people know aboout new features. I usually read our feature plan (e.g. http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Feature_Plan). I think we could add one general page per project, similar to that one, listing: - the feature - the branch where it is

Re: All KConfig files inherit kdeglobals keys by default, good or bad?

2013-07-09 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On Thursday 04 July 2013 01:28:16 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:10:03 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: Why would the code be specific to kiosk? - You asked for an example, not justification. I asked for an example, you provided one about kiosk, I answer how your kiosk

Re: kdeinit vs. link order

2013-07-09 Thread David Faure
Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 11:47:03 Thomas Lübking a écrit : Escalating to the High Council. :-) KWin needs[1] to set some environment variables before libGL is instantiated. Instantiated = loaded as a directly-linked shared library? Or is it dlopened? (then a Q_CONSTRUCTOR_FUNCTION would

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On Monday 08 July 2013 23:08:29 Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 22:14:28 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 16:26:00 laurent Montel wrote: Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 16:11:05 Frank Reininghaus a écrit : Hi, 2013/7/8 Àlex Fiestas: Now that kde-workspace

Re: gdk_x_error (was: Re: [kile] [Bug 321759] Kile crashes when file is opened from menu)

2013-07-09 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Friday 05 July 2013 Jul 15:34:06 Sven Brauch wrote: 2. GDK installs a deadly X error handler, causing the application to exit, instead of just printing an error message. See multiple backtraces containing gdk_x_error[3] There have recently been similar reports for KDevelop, too.

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 20:35:22 Luca Beltrame wrote: (apologies for breaking your threading, but I'm not subscribed to k-c-d; in fact, please CC me with replies, thanks!) Currently, the people working on openSUSE packages are against the proposal. A detailed explanation follows. First and

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 22:01:29 Andrea Scarpino wrote: We don't just run a sed rule on each spec (pkgbuild, in my case) file. We check for new dependencies (resp. dependencies not needed anymore), new modules (resp. modules not part of the SC anymore), build failure, etc... Can't we do

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 20:16:16 Scott Kitterman wrote: For Kubuntu (also mostly volunteer effort), it took about two weeks to package the 4.11 beta. For generating package updates for already existing packages, we have a script that will produce initial packages. This is quite fast, should be

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 08 July 2013 20:40:59 Heinz Wiesinger wrote: Any reason not to CC kde-packager or kde-release-team? IMHO they'd be primary audiences for this. kde-packagers is a private mailist, I'm not sure how to handle it. kde-release-team, I assumed they were in kde-core-devel as well, but you

Re: kdeinit vs. link order

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Dienstag, 9. Juli 2013 10:51:16 CEST, David Faure wrote: Instantiated = loaded as a directly-linked shared library? Yes. Interesting hack, never heard of that before. Afaics Lubos added it. If you set LD_PRELOAD and then type kwin in a terminal, it still doesn't work? No. Then the

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:05:30 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 22:01:29 Andrea Scarpino wrote: We don't just run a sed rule on each spec (pkgbuild, in my case) file. We check for new dependencies (resp. dependencies not needed anymore), new modules (resp. modules not part

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:11:48 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 20:16:16 Scott Kitterman wrote: For Kubuntu (also mostly volunteer effort), it took about two weeks to package the 4.11 beta. For generating package updates for already existing packages, we have a script

Re: Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 06:33:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:05:30 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 22:01:29 Andrea Scarpino wrote: We don't just run a sed rule on each spec (pkgbuild, in my case) file. We check for new dependencies (resp.

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 06:33:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:05:30 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 22:01:29 Andrea Scarpino wrote: We don't just run a sed rule on each spec (pkgbuild, in my case) file. We check for new dependencies (resp.

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 06:43:48 Scott Kitterman wrote: I want the point releases. The reasons for wanting them are for consistency, marketing, and for distro policy releases its' much easier to get a set of packages that are part of a release through the post distro release QA process than a

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Vishesh Handa
From my point of view, 3 month releases are going to actually increase quality. At least in Nepomuk. The Nepomuk developers (me included) have often merged feature branches right before the feature freeze even if the branch has some problems. No one wants to wait 8 months (2 months for the

Re: Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 06:33:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:05:30 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 22:01:29 Andrea Scarpino wrote: We don't just run a sed rule on each spec

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Scott Kitterman k...@kitterman.com wrote: These all have to be test compiled, checked for new or missing files, checked for files that have moved between packages, checked for license/copyright updates, etc. I guess you have all this mostly automagically

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Parker Coates
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Vishesh Handa wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: These all have to be test compiled, checked for new or missing files, checked for files that have moved between packages, checked for license/copyright updates, etc. I guess you

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
Vishesh Handa m...@vhanda.in wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Scott Kitterman k...@kitterman.com wrote: These all have to be test compiled, checked for new or missing files, checked for files that have moved between packages, checked for license/copyright updates, etc. I guess you

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Scott Kitterman k...@kitterman.com wrote: There I'd a licensecheck script that does this. It helps, but the results have to be checked and properly documented and so thete is still substantial manual work required. KDE packages are generally better about

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Scott Kitterman k...@kitterman.com wrote: Could you please elaborate why the licensing stuff cannot be automatically done? There I'd a licensecheck script that does this. It helps, but the results have to be checked and properly documented and so thete is still

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Vishesh Handa m...@vhanda.in wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Scott Kitterman k...@kitterman.com wrote: There I'd a licensecheck script that does this. It helps, but the results have to be checked and properly documented and so thete is still substantial

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Harald Sitter sit...@kde.org wrote: there would not be any problem. But reality diverges :( I'm all for fixing this in at least KDE SC. That way if/when we have shorter releases you can have some kind of guarantee that you will not encounter strange behaviours

Review Request 111462: Prevent a flood of file dirty signals from causing tons of stat calls in KDirLister

2013-07-09 Thread Dawit Alemayehu
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111462/ --- Review request for kdelibs and David Faure. Description --- The

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-09, Vishesh Handa m...@vhanda.in wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Harald Sitter sit...@kde.org wrote: there would not be any problem. But reality diverges :( I'm all for fixing this in at least KDE SC. That way if/when we have shorter releases you can have some kind of

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Andras Mantia
Hi, [...] (just replying at some point) Two point I want to mention: 1) working in a branch for kdepim is quite painful, as you need actually work on branches of 3 (or sometimes 4) modules: kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, kdepim (and akonadi). Keep them up-to-date, merge them at the right point,

Re: Review Request 111462: Prevent a flood of file dirty signals from causing tons of stat calls in KDirLister

2013-07-09 Thread David Faure
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111462/#review35788 --- To save 2 stat() per second, you want the user to not be

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:50:59 Harald Sitter wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 06:33:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:05:30 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 22:01:29 Andrea Scarpino

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:07:33 Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2013-07-09, Vishesh Handa m...@vhanda.in wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Harald Sitter sit...@kde.org wrote: there would not be any problem. But reality diverges :( I'm all for fixing this in at least KDE SC. That way if/when

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 14:54:38 Harald Sitter wrote: yes, not releated to schedules directly. the problem however is more social than anything. people mostly don't care enough. like not adding a fully copy of the GPL. if you buy some router running Linux you will get with it a printed copy

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-07-09, Àlex Fiestas afies...@kde.org wrote: If we keep copyright holders and licence, we can change the structure of the header, no? We can. /Sune

Re: Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 16:12:35 Andras Mantia wrote: I also find the motivation somewhat contradictory. Yes, you want to provide new features faster, but by cutting down testing time. *Are you sure?* Well here we have to ask whether the current testing procedure works. Since the beta got

KF5 Update Meeting Minutes 2013-w28

2013-07-09 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello everyone, This is the minutes of the Week 28 KF5 meeting. As usual it has been held on #kde-devel at 4pm Paris time. Were present: afiestas, apol, ben2367, dfaure, sebas, svuorela, wojtask9 and myself. Announcements: * Akademy next week so no meeting on #kde-devel * Instead we'll have

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 16:12:35 Andras Mantia wrote: Hi, [...] (just replying at some point) Two point I want to mention: 1) working in a branch for kdepim is quite painful, as you need actually work on branches of 3 (or sometimes 4) modules: kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, kdepim (and

Re: Review Request 110043: Proposed fix/workaround for legacy encoded filename handling

2013-07-09 Thread David Faure
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110043/#review35800 --- Important: the bug is not fixed forever. In Qt5,

KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-09 Thread Albert Astals Cid
So the kde-workspace dudes decided they don't want a 4.12 release and that they'll do a LTS 4.11, fine, how do we fix that branch wise? Cheers, Albert

Re: kdeinit vs. link order

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Dienstag, 9. Juli 2013 10:51:16 CEST, David Faure wrote: Then the problem is elsewhere. Yes, seems. Sorry for the noise. Compiling kwin as regular exec brought no change. The nvidiahack lib is inoperative for other reasons. We'll have to find another solution for the issue. Cheers, Thomas

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 09:36:00 andrea diamantini wrote: My idea about this concerns the way we let other people know aboout new features. I usually read our feature plan (e.g. http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.11_Feature_Plan). I think we could add one general page per project,

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Sven Brauch wrote: I think Nuno's point is very interesting and worth thinking about. To stick with the firefox example, since they started releasing every ortography fix in the settings dialog as a new major version, I think attention in the media to their releases

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Andras Mantia wrote: Hi, [...] (just replying at some point) Two point I want to mention: 1) working in a branch for kdepim is quite painful, as you need actually work on branches of 3 (or sometimes 4) modules: kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, kdepim (and akonadi).

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:50:59 Harald Sitter wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 06:33:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:05:30 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote:

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Àlex Fiestas wrote: ... What we need then is: -Be Have a strict policy on using always using find_package if somewhere a package which is used without being searched for this is and always was a build system bug. Alex

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 20:35:22 Luca Beltrame wrote: (apologies for breaking your threading, but I'm not subscribed to k-c-d; in fact, please CC me with replies, thanks!) Currently, the people working on openSUSE packages are against the

Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-09 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 18:57:41 Albert Astals Cid wrote: So the kde-workspace dudes decided they don't want a 4.12 release and that they'll do a LTS 4.11, fine, how do we fix that branch wise? I don't see how that affects branching. * 4.11 is branched from master * master is opened for feature

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:52:04 PM Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 06:43:48 Scott Kitterman wrote: I want the point releases. The reasons for wanting them are for consistency, marketing, and for distro policy releases its' much easier to get a set of packages that are part

Re: gdk_x_error (was: Re: [kile] [Bug 321759] Kile crashes when file is opened from menu)

2013-07-09 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Boudewijn Rempt b...@valdyas.org wrote: On Friday 05 July 2013 Jul 15:34:06 Sven Brauch wrote: 2. GDK installs a deadly X error handler, causing the application to exit, instead of just printing an error message. See multiple backtraces containing

Re: Releases in 3 months

2013-07-09 Thread Philip Muskovac
On Monday 08 July 2013 18:59:12 Michael Pyne wrote: On Mon, July 8, 2013 17:45:10 Philip Muskovac wrote: What would at least make my life easier here would be a way to easily get a list of all patches that were applied to a stable release (esp. when someone bothers to backport a fix after

Re: openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

2013-07-09 Thread Philip Muskovac
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 12:03:30 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Monday 08 July 2013 20:35:22 Luca Beltrame wrote: (apologies for breaking your threading, but I'm not subscribed to k-c-d; in fact, please CC me with replies, thanks!) Currently, the people working on openSUSE packages are against

Re: KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

2013-07-09 Thread Andras Mantia
On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 11:45:39 PM Martin Graesslin wrote: * master is opened for feature development and will lead to Plasma Workspaces 2 (or whatever the release will be called in the end). Does this mean that kde-workspace in master will exists, but with a different content (and I

Re: Review Request 111335: Fix for one of the oldest KIO bugs: multiple dialogs when KIO encounters SSL errors

2013-07-09 Thread Dawit Alemayehu
On July 5, 2013, 2:23 p.m., David Faure wrote: kio/kio/scheduler.cpp, line 766 http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111335/diff/2/?file=167766#file167766line766 Please don't put this code in scheduler.cpp I'm trying to properly split core and gui aspects of KIO in