On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, September 29, 2011 14:01:50 Kevin Kofler wrote: >> 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to have a >> KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. The rule so far has always been that the kdelibs >> version must be the same as the KDE SC version. > > that's not a rule anymore, and hasn't been for a while now. > > other than the packaging specfile changes that seem to be required in the > Fedora packages, i'm not sure what the real world confusion would be. when we > release apps and workspace 4.8, we'll also do a platform 4.7.x release. the > release communication will not say "SC 4.8" it will say "Platform 4.7, Plasma > Workspaces 4.8 and application updates" (or something along those lines). that > was not just a marketing ploy, but an attempt to align our public > communication with the realities that already existed in KDE development.
I am not saying this is the best solution, I am just putting out as a possible compromise. Would it be possible to just call kdelibs 4.7.8 or whatever it ends up being "kdelibs 4.8", without adding any significant new features? I know you can, by KDE policy, add new features at a x.x release, but is there any requirement that you have to? I know there are numerous other issues involved so this may be a terrible idea. -Todd
