Re: Re: KDE 4.8.5 planning

2012-07-07 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, July 05, 2012 19:51:41 Michael Jansen wrote: Will that be a normal release (i.e. full KDE SC) or just kdelibs? This might be a nice time to try only releasing the packages that have changes. Please dont change that within stable series. I fully agree with that.

Re: Re: KDE 4.8.5 planning

2012-07-07 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, July 05, 2012 18:07:47 Allen Winter wrote: On Thursday, July 05, 2012 01:00:11 PM Dirk Mueller wrote: I guess with all the kdelibs mess we should redo another 4.8.5 release. Does anyone have suggestions for a release plan? I would like to do tagging either tomorrow morning

Re: KDE 4.8.5 planning

2012-07-07 Thread Michael Jansen
Also, *before* you start doing partial releases, please present an exact definition of the dependencies *between versions*. As i see that you are on the release-team list. May i ask why you voice your objections the exact same moment someone wants to try something we discussed here

Re: KDE 4.8.5 planning

2012-07-07 Thread Allen Winter
On Saturday, July 07, 2012 12:06:12 PM Sebastian Kügler wrote: On Thursday, July 05, 2012 18:07:47 Allen Winter wrote: On Thursday, July 05, 2012 01:00:11 PM Dirk Mueller wrote: I guess with all the kdelibs mess we should redo another 4.8.5 release. Does anyone have suggestions for a

Re: Release Script

2012-07-07 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04-07-2012 17:44, Michael Jansen wrote: If you have a problem with us setting up weekly snapshots in that format, then you may have a point because i am thinking about that use case. Afaik some distros provide weekly snapshots straight from

Re: Release Script

2012-07-07 Thread Michael Jansen
So you guys have some artificial version 4.x.49. which downloads sources from a branch and builds them? Artificial in not released by kde? What you call an artificial version is a mean for us to provide the users who want to do it a package they can install and update whenever they

Re: Release Script

2012-07-07 Thread Michael Jansen
On Saturday, July 07, 2012 04:04:42 PM Michael Pyne wrote: On Saturday, July 07, 2012 18:27:42 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: I think we did it for a time. At least i remember some a new snow storm, a new snapshot commits by dirk. But no idea how they got released/packaged.

Re: Release Script

2012-07-07 Thread Michael Pyne
On Saturday, July 07, 2012 22:22:38 Michael Jansen wrote: On Saturday, July 07, 2012 04:04:42 PM Michael Pyne wrote: On Saturday, July 07, 2012 18:27:42 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: I think we did it for a time. At least i remember some a new snow storm, a new snapshot commits by

Re: Release Script

2012-07-07 Thread Michael Jansen
Gentoo already supports betas, RCs, etc. in Portage though they have a different nomenclature (e.g. I think 4.7.0~beta1 would be 4.7.0_beta1 in Portage). But in order to support generic KDE snapshots that nomenclature shouldn't change too much across future releases. As long as it's mostly

Re: Release Script

2012-07-07 Thread Michael Pyne
On Sunday, July 08, 2012 02:30:13 Michael Jansen wrote: Gentoo already supports betas, RCs, etc. in Portage though they have a different nomenclature (e.g. I think 4.7.0~beta1 would be 4.7.0_beta1 in Portage). But in order to support generic KDE snapshots that nomenclature shouldn't