On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, at 05:15 PM, Harald Sitter wrote: > the phab task is marked private. > > on a general note I do not think this was ever discussed or agreed > upon and makes no sense (how the heck is a playground project meant to > evolve if it can't do bloody pre releases...). > > making production releases from playground is not advisable because > a) playground was not peer-reviewed through kdereview and > b) for reasons I do not know playground projects cannot have stable > translations, so you couldn't do maintenance releases afterwards > without jumping through hoops to retain > > even so there's plenty of stuff releasing from playground, which I'll > argue is their business. just at a glance I am seeing like 10 projects > that have production releases but live in playground. > > whoever came up with this bullshit should stop putting stones in > people's way and publish the tarballs. releasing tarballs is enough of > a chore as it is. >
Ok, thanks for your input. I fully agree that it should be possible to make releases, but not production releases, and that's what I'm trying to do. I added you as a subscriber to the ticket, so you should be able to see it now I think. Cheers, Christian > HS > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Christian Mollekopf > <chrig...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to do a release of kdav2, kimap2, kasync, sink and kube and > > upload tarballs to downloads.kde.org/unstable/... for that. > > > > My plan was to then blog about it and send a mail to > > kde-announce-a...@kde.org to announce it. > > > > Now I was told that technically we are not allowed to make releases > > because still in playground, which wasn't a problem for the last release > > and doesn't make much sense to me since we're trying to get early > > feedback. > > > > While I could apply for some projects to be moved to extragear I'd > > rather wait a bit and sink and kube are too early in any case. > > > > See https://phabricator.kde.org/T6434 for more information. > > > > Could somebody quickly clarify? > > > > Thanks, > > Christian