----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung ----- > Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Kevin Kofler vàreu escriure: > > > 1. This puts kdelibs 4 into maintenance mode even before KDE > > > Frameworks 5 is anywhere near a release, let alone versions of the > > > workspace and applications actually using it. As a result, we will > > > fail to deliver new features to our end users for months if not > > > years. And no, kdelibs features do not only target developers: Some > > > application or workspace features require kdelibs changes, or in > > > some cases, even consist of kdelibs changes only, e.g. my Plasma > > > PackageKit integration work is entirely in kdelibs (libplasma). > > > > Please describe the features you need. > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102175/ > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102291/ > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102350/ > > The first one was merged into master after 4.7 branched and before it > got frozen and is now in limbo there, the other 2 are stuck in > ReviewBoard. > > > What you are describing is actually fine means that "old unmaintained" > > libraries are still useful, so I do not see that it helps to prove your > > point. > > It shows that they are useful, but that distributions have to patch them > because upstream does not take fixes nor required system integration > features anymore, which is not very helpful. Have you actually tried to get the fedora patches into the 3.5 branch? I cannot remember any discussion about it on kcd...
Even if upstream would say no to the feautures what is wrong with doing a distro-3.5 branch so that at least all distros can have the same patches? Cheers Martin > > Kevin Kofler >