As a distro packaging it's much easier and more reliable to just let the new version get added automatically to our builds. As a release manager it shouldn't be any harder to automate making a new bugfix release. I do this already for Plasma when requested. It should be the default method.
Jonathan On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 17:55, Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > Right now when we fix a significant bug in our software that may take a > while to reach users to to the release schedule of its repo, we contact > distros and ask them to backport it. This puts the burden on distros to > react to us. I'm wondering how people feel about KDE instead making > immediate point releases ourselves. Thus we would take responsibility > for releasing fixes for our own regressions, and distros that monitor > KDE infrastructure for new tarballs could be notified automatically. > > Thoughts? > > Nate >
