On dimanche 28 janvier 2018 12:03:01 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El diumenge, 28 de gener de 2018, a les 11:24:05 CET, David Faure va escriure: > > On dimanche 28 janvier 2018 00:32:09 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > El divendres, 26 de gener de 2018, a les 11:46:48 CET, Sandro Knauß va > > > > > > escriure: > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > the question came up, what to do with 17.12.2 and 17.12.3 releases > > > > according KHoldidays. As you may know KHolidays has moved from KDEPim > > > > (Applications) to Frameworks and will be released within the next > > > > Frameworks release (5.43) too. So for 17.12.2 and 17.12.3 users can > > > > get > > > > kHolidays from both bundles. So what to do? > > > > > > We release them, we can't drop something in the middle of a stable > > > release. > > > > > > > I think it is not an big issue shipping the KHolidays in both bundels. > > > > As > > > > frameworks is released from master and Applications has it own branch, > > > > we > > > > only need to make sure, that all bugfixes that are released for > > > > Applications are merged into master, but this is the default workflow > > > > anyways. If users already switched to Frameworks version, should > > > > following > > > > using Frameworks version and not switch back. For users not updated to > > > > Frameworks version can just follow using the version from > > > > Applications. > > > > > > > > So I would argue, that we should not do any special treating for > > > > KHolidays > > > > and just ship two months a nearly the same tarball in both bundles. > > > > > > > > It makes sense to add some lines to the next release announcement of > > > > 17.12.2 and next Frameworks release: > > > > > > > > KHolidays is moved from KDEPim (Applications) to Frameworks. We tried > > > > to > > > > not break your workflow. You have two options. Either you switch to > > > > Frameworks version and stick to it and do not build and use KHolidays > > > > from KDE Applications anymore. Or you continue using KHolidays from > > > > KDE > > > > Applications 17.12.X releases. The versions in Frameworks and > > > > Applications > > > > do only differ in some cleanup and the version number. In theory a > > > > smooth > > > > less switch should be possible without rebuilding depending packages > > > > as > > > > ABI > > > > is the same. We the KDEPim team ([email protected], #kontact) also wants > > > > to > > > > move more packages from Applications to Frameworks in future. We are > > > > interested in your feedback, what can be improved to make it even more > > > > smoothless switch for the next packages. > > > > > > Do we really need that? Will users really understand that? Seems a bit > > > too > > > much of "technical jargon" to me, and i know what we're talking about :D > > > > > > Since we think "it'll just work", why bother the user? > > > > I suppose that's rather a message for the packagers than for the end > > users. > > Right, but since packagers are on the release-team list and they are > hopefully reading this as they should I don't think we should put that huge > wall of text on our kde.org announcement.
Agreed. -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5
