I believe exception requests must go through the release team, so I'm redirecting.
On Thursday 28 October 2010 3:25:56 am Michael Leupold wrote: > Hi, > > as announced at Akademy we would really like to get a first > implementation of ksecretservice into KDE 4.6 in order to further the > project and adoption of the new D-Bus API. However due to various > work-work and personal reasons I haven't been as productive as I would > have liked to be during the last month and - as a result - there are > some things left to do before ksecretservice can be merged into trunk. > > When looking at the release schedule I was quite baffled. Somehow a > 4-week period between soft and hard freeze was stuck to my mind. > Obviously the 2 weeks we are left with doesn't leave us with enough time > to finish everything needed to release AND have a proper review period. > > Therefor I'd like to ask for an exception in order to still get > ksecretservice into KDE 4.6. We're very dedicated to the project and I > managed to get some time off work-work in order to improve the chances > of finishing in time. > > The parts to be merged will be: > - A new implementation for KWallet::Wallet using the secrets storage > D-Bus API (ksecretserviced, gnome-keyring). It is meant to enable a > smooth transition to the new client API to be released with KDE 4.7. The > new implementation will not sport any new public API. > - A new daemon implementation called ksecretserviced which fully > replaces kwalletd and uses the new D-Bus API. It will end up in > kdebase/runtime. > > This is the timeline which seems reasonable in order to finish: > 04.11. Move both parts to kdereview > 14.11. Merge with trunk > > So this would involve both a shortened review period of 1.5 weeks as > well as merging after hard freeze. Tests are already in place and > extended in parallel to the actual code. We're well aware that angering > our users by releasing something that puts their secrets in danger is > not an option and are committed to either releasing quality or not > delivering. > > I'd be grateful if we could make this work somehow. If you have any > questions I'd be happy to answer them. > I think we should grant this request. I have no objections. 10 days review time seems good enough to me. Committing to trunk 3 days after the hard freeze isn't a big deal either. If desired, extending the hard freeze 3 days wouldn't be so bad. We aren't that intransigent. -Allen _______________________________________________ Ksecretservice-devel mailing list Ksecretservice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/ksecretservice-devel
