On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > El Dilluns, 18 de maig de 2015, a les 11:23:18, Ralf Habacker va escriure: >> Hi, > > Hi > >> while preparing umbrello for the migration to KDE Frameworks 5 there has >> been the question raised, how to be able to provide bug fixes for KDE4 >> LTS distributions. >> >> A quick research on linux distros returns: >> >> 1. Opensuse provides LTS support for release 13.1 >> (https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen) which uses releases from >> the 14.12 branch (http://software.opensuse.org/package/umbrello) >> 2. Ubuntu provides LTS for 14.04 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS), which >> uses releases from the 4.13 branch >> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/umbrello) >> 3. debian provides LTS throught the squeeze-lts source. >> >> >> We are thinking about to use the latest KDE4 based branch >> Applications/15.04 or to create a dedicated LTS branch for that before >> merging the umbrello frameworks branch into master, which will then be >> used as a base for the 15.08 branch. >> >> Any hints ? > > There's no "KDE Applications" way to provide a kdelibs4-version long term > support version for two reasons: > > * Since we didn't go "all apps to KF5-based at the same time", it is expected > that apps only move to KF5-based when they are of "good enough" quality and > since apps still work on any desktop there's no special reason to provide more > releases of the kdelibs4-based versions. > > * Each distro has its own definition of what they support for a long time, > i.e. 4.14, 14.04, whatever. So for us upstream is hard to pick one over the > other. > > My suggestion for you if you really want to maintain a longer term kdelibs4- > based version of umbrello s to keep doing commits in your "last" kdelibs4- > branch (i guess Applications/15.04 in this case), though since we're not doing > any more tarballs of those i'm not sure it will reach many people, you'll have > to ping distro people and tell them to look into the branch regularly for > bugfixes or you can try releasing your own tarballs. > > Cheers, > Albert
What Albert meant by no more tarballs of those is that we only will be doing two more micro releases of that branch (15.04.2 and 15.04.3) at the beginning and end of June respectively. Nothing after that as we will be focused on the 15.08 release after that. BR, Jeremy > >> >> Regards >> Ralf >> >> >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe >> >> << > > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
