Hello Martin (and KDE Release Team), What will happen AFTER KDE Applications 4.12 release? It's just 6 months away, and we would like to provide on what will happen after it.
Regards, Howard Chan (smartboyhw) 2013/8/19 Martin Graesslin <[email protected]>: > On Monday 19 August 2013 20:03:45 Ho Wan Chan wrote: >> Hello KDE Release Team, >> >> I'm Howard Chan, and I'm currently helping KDE Promotion Team to write >> an article on our new release production style. Details can be found >> at >> http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2013/08/help-kde-communicate-frameworks-5-and >> .html >> >> However, we don't know about the initiatives and timelines for KDE >> applications to base on KDE Platform 5, so I would like to ask for the >> application maintainers whether they will port their applications to >> KDE Frameworks 5 (and Plasma Workspaces 2) and whether they will do >> any more releases. The information will be included in the article. > > When we came up with the idea of freezing the Workspaces, we explicitly wanted > to make sure that the applications are not affected by our decision and that > we > don't want to force any application to go to frameworks 5 early. In the > workspaces we need more time for adjusting to frameworks than a normal > application would need. At the current time it's probably still a rather bad > idea to consider frameworks for most applications. > > Given your mail I'm a little bit afraid that this will generate the wrong > message to application developers. It looks like they are supposed to think > about Frameworks 5 now. > > If you want to do a blog post or a news post about it, it would be awesome to > explicitly point out that there will be a 4.12 release for the applications > and that just the workspaces are frozen. At least the German media got that > terribly wrong. > > Cheers > Martin _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
