> On Wednesday 07 August 2013 10:12:48 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 August 2013 09:38:51 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > > > Hi Release team, > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > I just got the OK to ship [1] but considering the very close release > > > > > of KDE 4.11 it seems right to ask the release team for permission as > > > > > well. > > > > > > > > > > The patch simply prevents one stat call with KDirWatch and makes the > > > > > code a little bit better to understand. Tests pass just fine and othe > > > > > additional (visual and gdb) testing hasn't shown any regression. > > > > > > > > > > If i am not allowed to push it (due to the very close 4.11 tag), when > > > > > can i push it then? Right after the tag i assume? > > > > > > > > Honestly, if this is just a [small] speed optimization and doesn't fix > > > > any > > > > bug, i don't see it belonging to 4.11 at all, just commit it to master > > > > and > > > > leave it for 4.12. > > > > > > > > Unless is a so huge optimization our users are going to send us money > > > > for > > > > the speed difference :D > > > > > > Don't want to interfere with the release team work - but, if 4.11 is going > > > to be a long term maintained version (and it is) doesn't it make sense to > > > let this go in during say 4.11.3 or so (it would've gotten some more > > > testing by then)? Otherwise, this won't reach users for a long time - and > > > that's neither very motivating nor benefiting anybody. > > > > The only thing long term in 4.11 is kde-workspace, this is not > > kde-workspace, so your rationale doesn't apply. > > It's KDELibs then?
Yes, you'll see if you click on the link Repository: kdelibs > The rationale is kind'a the same - Frameworks 5 is still a > while off, it seems sensible to let users benefit from a slightly more > liberal > policy with regards to our .x releases until the 5 series arrives on the > scene. Even if not for this patch, don't you think it makes sense to adopt a > similar policy as we did in the KDE 3.5 times? Errr, what? There will be a 4.12 kdelibs release, so no, the rationale is not similar at all to the kde-workspace situation. Cheers, Albert > > > > > > [1] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111870/ _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
