On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:45 AM, George Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the top post - just need to put this out there: > > We *must* promote this as an *alpha* or *tech preview* or something > release. This is simply because we have completely bypassed the > correct procedures used by KDE for releasing software. Before we can > make any kind of final release, we need to go through the KDE Review > process and into extragear or somewhere. This is something we should > look at doing once we have made a couple more preview releases and the > basic feature set has settled down. For a technical preview release it > seems reasonable to release it as a git snapshot straight from > playground (where we currently reside), but for a proper release, this > is *not* OK.
Ok, lets all use the term "Technical Preview" so we're consistent. I don't think any of us see it as anything beyond that, but you're right that we need to communicate it better to the external people. I'm a bit busy till this evening - if someone else could make the branches in the repos / the tarballs, that would be awesome. > > 2011/7/23 Martin Klapetek <[email protected]>: >> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:16, George Kiagiadakis >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 2011/7/23 Martin Klapetek <[email protected]>: >>> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 00:52, David Edmundson >>> > <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Daniele E. Domenichelli >>> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> > On 21/07/11 00:40, David Edmundson wrote: >>> >> >> Ok, with the release happening, here is the plan: >>> >> >> - Feature freeze as of tomorrow night. Any features after 10pm >>> >> >> tomorrow won't be in the first release >>> >> >> - Fixes can go on till Friday night, keep fixing trunk >>> >> >> - At this point, we make 0.1 branches in every component >>> >> >> - These get packaged and shipped on Thursday >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > Some questions: >>> >> > >>> >> > - Do we have scripts to create the tarballs? >>> >> No. Do we need them? >>> >>> git archive --format=tar --prefix=telepathy-kde-$COMPONENT-$VERSION/ >>> HEAD | bzip2 -9 > telepathy-kde-$COMPONENT-$VERSION.tar.bz2 >>> >>> ;) >>> >>> > Probably not. >>> >> >>> >> > - Where do we upload the tarballs? >>> >> Don't know - any ideas? >>> > >>> > Does KDE provide any kind of "release space"? Otherwise I think it's ok >>> > to >>> > put the tarballs to whatever place, important is to get links among >>> > people >>> > (we need to decide this ASAP so we can put those link in promo notes). >>> >>> The KDE ftp server. Someone needs to ask the sysadmins... >> >> <bcooksley> mck182: upload your files to upload.kde.org >> <bcooksley> there is a file there "README" which lays out the steps you need >> to take to get it uploaded >> <bcooksley> to the main ftp.kde.org + mirror network >> >>> >>> >> >>> >> > - Who will create the tarballs? >>> >> Don't know - volunteers? >>> > >>> > I know virtually nothing about packaging, so probably not me. But it >>> > should >>> > be just making a snapshot of the git repos, right? >>> >>> I can do that... >>> Snapshots of the git repos it is, unless we want to do something more >>> monolithic... >>> >>> PS: What should be the names of the tarballs? For some of the >>> comonents (for instance, the text-ui), the repo name is not the best >>> to use in the tarball. I would suggest to use the names that I used in >>> the debian packages (see [1]), but I'm open to other ideas... >> >> I agree. Let's go with these names. It will be less confusing for everyone. >> >>> >>> [1]. http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/gkiagia (telepathy-kde-* repos) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> KDE-Telepathy mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KDE-Telepathy mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy >> >> > _______________________________________________ > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > _______________________________________________ KDE-Telepathy mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy
