On Monday 19 August 2013 21:34:40 Ho Wan Chan wrote: > 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. So far there has not been any discussion about it (AFAIK). We only had a discussion about reducing the release cycle. Given that my personal expectation is that some time after 4.12 there will be 4.13.
Cheers Martin > > 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-a > >> nd > >> .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
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