Re: KDE 3.5.8

2007-10-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Mittwoch 03 Oktober 2007 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: So are we going to ship 3.5.8 without flash 9 support and push out 3.5.9 as soon as that's implemented, or should we delay 3.5.8 until that's done? Delaying 3.5.8 would be a big mistake +1, imo, flash-fix is post

Re: Delaying 4.0?

2007-11-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Sebastian Kuegler wrote: Our current schedule says that we'll be tagging 4.0 coming week. I propose shifting the release into January and instead doing -rc2 next. That gives us one more month for getting rid of the showstoppers that are still there, and also for polishing the user

Re: Delaying 4.0?

2007-11-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Andras Mantia wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: If this is absolutely the last slip, sure. Otherwise, the release party scheduled for January 17 will look pretty silly. But doing a release just for the shake of the release party is equally silly. :) So, do *you

Re: KDE 3.5.9

2008-01-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephan Kulow wrote: I wanted to wait with it after 4.0 and I don't mind if we don't do it at all, but there were 327 commits not counting translations, so it would be justified. +1 speaking of which, did anything actually happen wrt to Allen's proposed merging of kdepim-enterprise? -- Rex

Re: 4.0.2

2008-01-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Allen Winter wrote: How about : 27 February 2008: Tagging 4.0.2 05 March 2008: Releasing 4.0.2 +1, good target. -- Rex ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team

Re: Distro BoF

2008-02-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Nicolas Lécureuil wrote: i do not know if this is the right thread, but what about using xdg-user-dir on kde 4.1 ? While nice, it's easy enough to hook in through prudent distro-customized defaults and/or kiosk settings. I'm not so sure introducing a new (non-optional?) dependency is a good

Re: Non-C++ Apps in KDE Main Modules (Was: Guidance in KDE Admin)

2008-03-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Ottens wrote: Also, per binding we probably a list of do and don't which should be followed by applications using the said binding. For instance, the use of the python dbus bindings has shortcomings (as system-config-printer-applet shown), do we allow apps like that? There's

Re: Non-C++ Apps in KDE Main Modules (Was: Guidance in KDE Admin)

2008-03-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Andras Mantia wrote: On Friday 28 March 2008, Allen Winter wrote: 1) must perform: speed-wise and memory-wise I'd like to add here that those apps should not be resident apps (apps that need to run continuously) rationale being? (because this seems to target system-config-printer-applet

Re: Non-C++ Apps in KDE Main Modules (Was: Guidance in KDE Admin)

2008-03-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Mauricio Piacentini wrote: Andras Mantia wrote: I already stated my reasons, I don't think I should repeat them. Just want to support Andras here Now that I've read the justifications for Andras' position, and while I respect the opinions given, I think we can only to agree to disagree

Re: Non-C++ Apps in KDE Main Modules (Was: Guidance in KDE Admin)

2008-03-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Mark Constable wrote: The main point is that introducing these kinds of packages intermixed with core C++ based code pollutes that environment and demands that packagers and end users MUST install dependencies they may otherwise not need. As I understand it, these were to be nothing but

Re: kdesupport taglib/admin needs svn auth

2008-05-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Mark Constable wrote: I'm not sure where to post this so apologies if this is not the right list for an anonymous checkout bug. # /home/sources/kdesupport svn up Uemerge/portage/kdesupport/akonadi/akonadi-0.80.0-20080423.py Uemerge/portage/kdesupport/automoc/automoc-20080426.py U

Re: PROPOSAL: Merging Kleopatra Enterprise Branch into Trunk for 4.1

2008-06-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Allen Winter wrote: Dear Translators and Release Team, ... In summary: We are asking permission to make this merge happen. Please let us know your objections or thoughts on this matter. +1 here (afaict, imho and all that). Not an ideal situation, mind you, but a relatively least-bad option.

Re: Request for breaking hard feature freeze for an important Plasma feature ; )

2008-07-01 Thread Rex Dieter
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Monday 30 June 2008, Sebastian Trüg wrote: we are in feature freeze which means the fact that this feature is in the feature plan for 4.1 does not help me anymore. But I think this is important: along the same lines, i have been working on the ability to let you

Re: show stopper list?

2008-07-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Dirk Mueller wrote: Anyone around who has more eyes and ears open and can bring in some show stoppers or critical/annoying bugs we have to fix before 4.1? One of the critical/annoying kind: * okular: print pdf produces no output, also print to file broken : http://bugs.kde.org/161759 -- Rex

Re: show stopper list?

2008-07-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Pino Toscano wrote: Alle lunedì 21 luglio 2008, Rex Dieter ha scritto: Dirk Mueller wrote: Anyone around who has more eyes and ears open and can bring in some show stoppers or critical/annoying bugs we have to fix before 4.1? One of the critical/annoying kind: * okular: print pdf produces

Re: automoc in kdesupport-issue

2008-07-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008, Matthias Kretz wrote: That's not entirely right. For the last beta I asked dirk to do the automoc4 0.9.83 tarball. You can find it on ftp.kde.org. unstable/support/automoc4 I need an automoc4

Re: automoc in kdesupport-issue

2008-07-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008, Matthias Kretz wrote: That's not entirely right. For the last beta I asked dirk to do the automoc4 0.9.83 tarball. You can find it on ftp.kde.org. unstable/support/automoc4 I

Re: show stopper list?

2008-07-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Nicolas Lécureuil wrote: Menus are important, and in + i just discovered that if i add a .desktop, menu do not see it directly so menus are completly broken. i don't know if this have to be considered as showstopper but this is a really big regression imho kde-4.0 had that too, fwiw, so it's

Re: update the feature plan!

2008-11-19 Thread Rex Dieter
John Tapsell wrote: Hmm, in KUbuntu 8.10, KWin 4.1 has compositing by default - was this a distro change then? yes. -- Rex ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team

Re: KDE 4.1.4 release tagging tomorrow?

2008-12-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Dirk Mueller wrote: If no distro is waiting on this release (openSUSE doesn't), I would recommend to delay 4.1 a bit more. Opinions? +1 delaying ok, esp if more backports are pending. -- Rex ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org

newer phonon tarball needed

2009-01-08 Thread Rex Dieter
From recent discussions on irc and kde-packager, it would appear a newer phonon tarball (based on /tags/kdesupport-for-4.2/kdesupport/phonon ?) is needed (at least for kdebindings-4.1.96). Dirk? -- Rex ___ release-team mailing list

Re: phonon 4.3.1 requires Qt 4.5?

2009-02-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Benjamin Reed wrote: Dirk Mueller wrote: I've just finished uploading the KDE 4.2.1 release tarballs ... phonon-4.3.1.tar.bz2 has also been added there. Does phonon 4.3.1 require Qt 4.5? CMake isn't enforcing it if so. It shouldn't, if true, needs to be fixed (imo, and all that). didn't

Re: Getting distros to fix my lazyness

2009-03-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Aurélien Gâteau wrote: Hi, I just realized I forgot to bump Gwenview version number from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 before KDE 4.2.1 got tagged (just fixed it for 4.2.2). I would like to suggest kde packagers to fix the version number in their 4.2.1 packages. What is the best way to communicate

Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Dirk Mueller wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009, C. Boemann wrote: The oxygen icons have been moved to kdesupport/oxygenicons The intension is to release it more often than kde itself, so that we can provide up-to-date icons for applications that are outside the normal KDE release schedules

Re: KDE 4.3 Beta2 : missing/unreleased dependencies

2009-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/03/2009 04:23 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: On Wednesday 03 of June 2009 22:24:05 Ingmar Vanhassel wrote: At least kdebase-runtime [1], and kdebindings [2] fail here if I use the latest soprano release. Is soprano trunk required or will a soprano release follow? Further yet unstatisfied

Re: microblog plasmoid fix in 4.3 branch, but not in 4.3.0

2009-08-02 Thread Rex Dieter
On 08/02/2009 07:35 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: hello packagers and release team ... if you're packaging up 4.3.0, you may want to include this patch: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revrevision=1004203 to kdeplasma-addons, which fixes the submission of updates to twitter/identi.ca from

Re: Freeze exemption for PA integration into Phonon

2009-11-18 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/18/2009 11:41 AM, Tom Albers wrote: Op Wednesday 18 November 2009 18:10 schreef u: Colin Guthrie has been working on better integration of PulseAudio in Phonon, but AFAIK it is now too late for getting it into 4.4, without getting and exemption from the freeze. ... If there are good,

Re: KDE 4.4 Beta2 (4.3.85) tarballs available

2009-12-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Dirk Mueller wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009, Dirk Müller wrote: I just finished uploading the first set of Beta2 tarballs, a bit later than expected, sorry about that. I'll start testing them now, please report any issues you might find. Sebas suggested to release them earlier than

Re: KDE 4.4 Beta2 (4.3.85) tarballs available

2009-12-18 Thread Rex Dieter
On 12/18/2009 02:24 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Dirk Mueller wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009, Dirk Müller wrote: I just finished uploading the first set of Beta2 tarballs, a bit later than expected, sorry about that. I'll start testing them now, please report any issues you might find. Sebas

Re: KDE 4.4 Beta2 (4.3.85) tarballs available

2009-12-19 Thread Rex Dieter
On 12/19/2009 08:57 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009 23:59:55 Rex Dieter wrote: On 12/18/2009 02:24 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Dirk Mueller wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009, Dirk Müller wrote: I just finished uploading the first set of Beta2 tarballs, a bit later than

Re: KDE 4.4 RC1 (4.3.90) tarballs uploaded

2010-01-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Andrea Scarpino wrote: 2010/1/7 Dirk Mueller muel...@kde.org: while I had the problem originally, after updating to 4.4 kdebase/workspace it builds fine for me. I can confirm the same failure here, building against kdebase-worspace-4.3.90. But kdebase-workspace requires kdebindings-python

Re: KDE 4.4 RC1 (4.3.90) tarballs uploaded

2010-01-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Simon Edwards wrote: Andrea Scarpino wrote: 2010/1/6 Dirk Mueller muel...@kde.org: I just finished the first set of 4.3.90 (KDE 4.4 RC1) tarballs and uploaded them. kde-l10n still takes a few more hours, I'll upload them later. Please let me know of any urgent issues, we'd like to release

Re: KDE 4.4 RC1 (4.3.90) tarballs uploaded

2010-01-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: Simon Edwards wrote: Andrea Scarpino wrote: 2010/1/6 Dirk Mueller muel...@kde.org: I just finished the first set of 4.3.90 (KDE 4.4 RC1) tarballs and uploaded them. kde-l10n still takes a few more hours, I'll upload them later. Please let me know of any urgent issues, we'd

Re: Upcoming KDE 4.4 vs. Bug #162485 (no suitably sufficient SSL/TLS support)

2010-01-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Matthias Andree wrote: The problem - to me - seems to be that showstopper bugs aren't stopping the KDE show to gain the necessary attention Several related issues, based on my own experience and perceptions as mostly a lurker on the release team: 1. KDE currently has a time-based schedule

Re: Kopete-jabber is not working anymore

2010-02-01 Thread Rex Dieter
On 01/28/2010 03:51 PM, Detlev Casanova wrote: Hi, jabber.org has recently changed it's server configuration. Now, Kopete is not connecting to any jabber.org account. How can I tell the release team that this is blocking for KDE 4.4 before we have worked the problem out ? You can propose it

kde-4.4, virtuoso-6.1.0, and virtuosoconverter

2010-02-04 Thread Rex Dieter
FYI, http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Nepomuk+Virtuoso+Converter 1. The requirements for kde-4.4/nepomuk have changed pretty late in the game (after all 4.4rc's). 2. I personally have had trouble downloading 6.1.0 for the past 24hrs from sourceforge, if this is a continuing problem for

Re: [Nepomuk] kde-4.4, virtuoso-6.1.0, and virtuosoconverter

2010-02-04 Thread Rex Dieter
On 02/04/2010 07:43 AM, Sebastian Trueg wrote: Rex Dieter wrote: FYI, http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Nepomuk+Virtuoso+Converter 1. The requirements for kde-4.4/nepomuk have changed pretty late in the game (after all 4.4rc's). No, they did not. I always said that Virtuoso 6 would

Re: KDE 4.5 Beta 1 (4.4.80) uploaded for testing

2010-05-25 Thread Rex Dieter
On 05/21/2010 08:42 AM, Raymond Wooninck wrote: On Friday 21 May 2010 14:31:42 Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Thursday May 20 2010 16:11:47 Dirk Mueller wrote: just finished uploading the first set of tarballs for KDE 4.5 Beta1. Currently kdepim is skipped intentionally from KDE 4.5. ... kdelibs

kdebindings-4.4.80 build failures

2010-05-25 Thread Rex Dieter
I'm seeing kdebindings failures. trying to build against qt-4.7.0-beta1 results in one kind, [ 12%] Building CXX object smoke/qtgui/CMakeFiles/smokeqtgui.dir/x_20.o cd /builddir/build/BUILD/kdebindings-4.4.80/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/smoke/qtgui /usr/bin/c++ -Dsmokeqtgui_EXPORTS -D_BSD_SOURCE

Re: KDE 4.5 Beta 1 (4.4.80) uploaded for testing

2010-05-26 Thread Rex Dieter
On 05/26/2010 11:56 AM, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010, Rex Dieter wrote: It seems 4.5b1 needs newer and as-yet unreleased versions of both akonadi (1.3.60+) and soprano (2.4.63+). Can we get tarballs for those these? http://download.akonadi-project.org/akonadi-1.3.80.tar.bz2

Re: 4.4.5?

2010-05-31 Thread Rex Dieter
On 05/31/2010 08:36 AM, Allen Winter wrote: Do we want to make a 4.4.5 release? Seems like we could make a 4.4.5 in late June, since 4.5.0 is due early August. If we want 4.4.5, I propose the schedule: June 24th, 2010: Tag KDE 4.4.5 June 29th, 2010: Release KDE 4.4.5 I vote yes. yes

Re: Thoughts on freeze policy for kdesdk/scripts?

2010-06-25 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/24/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Pyne wrote: I'm wondering if we have any special policy/exemptions for the development freeze for the scripts in kdesdk/scripts. Typically they are for use by KDE platform developers and so it seems to me that they wouldn't necessarily fall under a development

Re: KDEPIM 4.5Beta1

2010-06-30 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/30/2010 12:51 PM, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, kdepim 4.5 beta1 has been tagged (tags/kdepim/kdepim-4.5beta1) and I created a tarball for your compiling and packaging pleasure. The tarball will be showing up on the public KDE mirrors soon. Look in the

Re: KDE 4.5.2 tarballs (try#1 uploaded)

2010-10-02 Thread Rex Dieter
On 10/01/2010 11:38 AM, Dirk Mueller wrote: Hi, I just finished uploading the first set of KDE 4.5.2 tarballs. Tentatively release is tuesday next week. Please report any failures to me that would justify a tarball respin. if in doubt. please mail. I'm seeing a kdebindings failure

Re: KDE 4.5.2 tarballs (try#1 uploaded)

2010-10-02 Thread Rex Dieter
On 10/02/2010 09:14 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: On 10/01/2010 11:38 AM, Dirk Mueller wrote: Hi, I just finished uploading the first set of KDE 4.5.2 tarballs. Tentatively release is tuesday next week. Please report any failures to me that would justify a tarball respin. if in doubt. please

Re: KDE 4.6 Beta1 tarballs (4.5.80) uploaded

2010-11-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/19/2010 01:44 PM, Dirk Mueller wrote: I just finished uploading the first set of tarballs.. I believe I need a couple of more tarballs for those to work properly (akonadi etc), working on that now. Please let me know of urgent fixes/compile issues in those tar balls. Need a

Re: KDE 4.6 Beta1 tarballs (4.5.80) uploaded

2010-11-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/19/2010 01:44 PM, Dirk Mueller wrote: Hi, I just finished uploading the first set of tarballs.. I believe I need a couple of more tarballs for those to work properly (akonadi etc), working on that now. Please let me know of urgent fixes/compile issues in those tar balls.

Re: KDE 4.6 Beta1 tarballs (4.5.80) uploaded

2010-11-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/19/2010 01:44 PM, Dirk Mueller wrote: Hi, I just finished uploading the first set of tarballs.. I believe I need a couple of more tarballs for those to work properly (akonadi etc), working on that now. Please let me know of urgent fixes/compile issues in those tar balls.

Re: KDE 4.6 Beta1 tarballs (4.5.80) uploaded

2010-11-22 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/22/2010 10:24 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: On 11/19/2010 01:44 PM, Dirk Mueller wrote: Hi, I just finished uploading the first set of tarballs.. I believe I need a couple of more tarballs for those to work properly (akonadi etc), working on that now. Please let me know of urgent

Re: can kdebase-4.5.4 depend on kdelibs = 4.5.4?

2010-11-27 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/27/2010 01:29 PM, Chani wrote: [please CC] erk. I just backported a bugfix to 4.5 - but it needs a new function in kdelibs. which makes kdebase depend on 4.5.4 for that function. but, ade tells me that it might not be allowed to depend on anything more than 4.5.0. is this true?

Re: KDEPIM 4.6 beta4 (second try)

2011-01-12 Thread Rex Dieter
On 01/10/2011 09:15 AM, Allen Winter wrote: See /pub/kde/unstable/kdepim/4.5.94.1 on your ftp.kde.org mirror. 0243aa59c3acd9c38403b3acddb33c22c9c39c65 kdepim-4.5.94.1.tar.bz2 f226165cd7f92524be354329097e5009b5754046 kdepim-runtime-4.5.94.1.tar.bz2 builds ok, but contains locale/translation

Re: [PATCH] Re: KDE 4.6.0: go or no go?

2011-01-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 01/20/2011 07:00 AM, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Dirk Mueller wrote: so the general consensus seems to be against slipping the schedule and inserting a RC3. This means that we need to solve bug 246678. Given that there seems to be no fix in sight (no comment in the

Re: [PATCH] Re: KDE 4.6.0: go or no go?

2011-01-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 01/20/2011 02:05 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2011, Ian Monroe wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:20, Alexander Neundorfneund...@kde.org wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2011, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Dirk Mueller wrote: so the general

Re: Re: KDE 4.6.0 and cmake-2.8.4-rc1

2011-01-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 01/20/2011 02:20 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2011, Rex Dieter wrote: This is the code which would have to go into FindKDE4Internal.cmake in case of breakage: Looks ok to me, just built kdebase-runtime-4.5.95 with cmake-2.8.4-rc1 yesterday (is that a good enough

Re: Minor Point Relase Policy Draft

2011-01-24 Thread Rex Dieter
http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Minor_Point_Release_Policy/Draft I did some edits. So did anyone have a look at my edits to that page? Do they make sense for you? It's something we could agree on? Agreement from me. -- Rex ___ release-team

Re: git migration, next steps

2011-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/03/2011 09:19 AM, Jeremy Whiting wrote: As you may or may not know kdeaccessibility and kdeutils are ready to migrate to git (when the freeze is over, don't worry). And we'd like to know what the feeling is about the best time to migrate to minimize packaging/releasing stresses. We'd

Re: git migration, next steps

2011-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/03/2011 10:56 AM, Ian Monroe wrote: It's still release-team@kde.org not release-team-ark, release-team-marble etc etc. Why would split tarballs for 4.7 be an uncoordinated shambles? So far the main reason against it seems to be that it would be kind of a pain in dealing with your

Re: git migration, next steps

2011-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/03/2011 10:56 AM, Ian Monroe wrote: It's still release-team@kde.org not release-team-ark, release-team-marble etc etc. Why would split tarballs for 4.7 be an uncoordinated shambles? So far the main reason against it seems to be that it would be kind of a pain in dealing with your

Re: git migration, next steps: proposal

2011-06-07 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/07/2011 12:49 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Now if I have big kde tarball and I want to split into smaller pieces I have to figure out which file is used by what and then put that file into proper separate subpackage. With split tarballs I don't have to do such guessing. It's already

Re: kdegraphics 4.6.4 tarball contains the wrong okular

2011-06-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/20/2011 03:09 PM, Dirk Mueller wrote: On Friday 17 June 2011, Albert Astals Cid wrote: with 4.x) or because the newest Okular tag is v4.6.1 in git repo.. okular was taken from svn, simply because thats the way it used to be at the beginning when I tagged 4.6.2, and nobody told me that

Re: RFC: Release Management Going Forward

2011-06-22 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/22/2011 02:16 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Wednesday 22 June 2011, Rex Dieter wrote: To be clear, this can make reproducible 4.7.x tarballs, or just 4.7 branch snapshots? or both? What do you mean with reproducible 4.7.x tarballs exactly ? Get the sources from git tags ? Yes (ie

Re: RFC: Release Management Going Forward

2011-06-27 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/27/2011 02:49 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Friday 24 June 2011, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: ... I tried an ExternalProject-based approach before for kdeedu. The main inherent and unavoidable disadvantage is that 'make' alone will *install* the subprojects. Yes, that's unavoidable.

Re: RFC: Release Management Going Forward

2011-07-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Sebastian Kügler wrote: Let me dump my brain and add how I see release management going forward from here: = KDE SC 4.x = * monolithic tarballs, layout like 4.6.0 release * no disruption in packages * git migration should not have effect on released tarball layout to keep packagers'

Re: Too generic name of mobipocket tarball.

2011-07-16 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/15/2011 08:56 AM, Philip Muskovac wrote: We (the kubuntu team) were discussing the package name for mobipocket and in our opinion 'mobipocket' is a far too generic name for the tarball since it's not the only source that deals with mobipocket files and doesn't contain a mobipocket

Re: kdelibs and kate , quasi circular dependency

2011-07-21 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/21/2011 09:03 AM, Milian Wolff wrote: Milian Wolff, 21.07.2011: Rex Dieter, 21.07.2011: Hi, been working on the adapting packaging for our new split tarball world order, and have run into a bit of a quandry wrt kdelibs and kate. Prior to the split, libktexteditor and katepart were

Re: Forgot to backport changes in kde-runtime

2011-07-25 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/25/2011 10:26 AM, Vishesh Handa wrote: Hey Release team I'd posted on the list about 10 days ago about the need to backport a lot of Nepomuk commits. One of which was extremely important and fixed file indexing. ( The others were very trivial stuff that didn't really matter ). I

Re: adding a QA responsibility to the release team??

2011-09-18 Thread Rex Dieter
On 09/17/2011 11:59 AM, Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas wrote: So,i propose a new timeline addition in which we will check our tarballs better and a new bugzilla compoment in which we will be able to report regressions and critical bugs which hasn't been fixed. There's already a week between initial

Re: Request: remove libkactivites from kdelibs (in experimental/)

2011-11-07 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/04/2011 05:05 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: we currently have libkactivities in kdelibs/experimental. due to upcoming changs and frameworks 5 development, it has been moved into its own git repository: kactivities. i would like to request approval to remove it from kdelibs/experimental and

Re: KDE 4.8 RC1 (4.7.95) tarballs uploaded (try#1)

2011-12-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Phil Miller wrote: KDE has some issues with qt-4.8.0. One of it is regarding QUrl.toLocalfile: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749213 probably of more interest is following these, https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com//browse/QTBUG-22382 and it's impact on kde:

kde-4.7.95 's startkde still sets MALLOC_CHECK_

2011-12-29 Thread Rex Dieter
For better or worse, seems that our kde-4.8rc1 (aka 4.7.95) startkde still sets MALLOC_CHECK_ , so we're likely seeing a few more crashes than usual. a bit of deja-vu, http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-release-teamm=130979983309914w=2 (Personally, I'm hearing about and witnessing some fun kmail

Re: kde-base-artwork

2012-01-06 Thread Rex Dieter
On 01/06/2012 06:31 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: kde-base-artwork has been added in RC 2. I'm having people worried that after a release candidate might be too late to rename a module, I'd think adding one is more likely to be a problem. This module has no COPYING file and most problematic its

Re: KDE 4.8.2 tarballs (try#1) uploaded

2012-03-30 Thread Rex Dieter
On 03/30/2012 06:38 AM, Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:33:42 +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote: Hi, I just finished uploading the 4.8.2 tarballs. they're xz only for now. I've created them with pixz(1) meanwhile, so that they're build within reasonable amount of time. I've shortly

Re: KDE 4.8.2 tarballs (try#1) uploaded

2012-03-31 Thread Rex Dieter
On 03/31/2012 01:26 PM, Chusslove Illich wrote: [: Dirk Mueller :] Also, please mail release-team@kde.org about any issues you find as blocking for this release. the plan is to release them tuesday or wednesday next week. If also l10n packs are ready, could you check if kde-l10n-sr is around

Re: KSecrets State?

2012-05-18 Thread Rex Dieter
On 05/17/2012 07:01 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote: A few weeks ago, KSecrets working state was challenged and considered as still alpha but as we could not agree on removing it from 4.8 releases, it stayed there. Now is the question on whether it improved for 4.9 and should be kept in the 4.9

Re: Packaging 4.9: KSecrets

2012-05-22 Thread Rex Dieter
On 05/22/2012 06:04 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: I understand we do *not* want KSecrets in 4.9 releases, right? Right, that seems to be the consensus, including it's maintainer. -- rex ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org

kdesdk cmake-bustage, kde4_add_plugin

2012-06-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Seems some odd cmake borkage is going on trying to build kdesdk-4.8.90 (4.8.80 suffered the same, but I hadn't noticed then), in that any modules using kde4_add_plugin seem to not get compiled with -fPIC properly, and fail linking, for example, dolphin-plugins: /usr/bin/ld:

Re: kdesdk cmake-bustage, kde4_add_plugin

2012-06-10 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/10/2012 12:41 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Seems some odd cmake borkage is going on trying to build kdesdk-4.8.90 (4.8.80 suffered the same, but I hadn't noticed then), in that any modules using kde4_add_plugin seem to not get compiled with -fPIC properly, and fail linking, for example, dolphin

Re: kdebindings-kimono support for Soprano is broken in beta2

2012-06-11 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/11/2012 02:00 PM, Manuel Tortosa wrote: KDEBindings-Kimono can be only compiled with -DWITH_Soprano=OFF Build error, right during the configure, does not even starts the building: CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND. Please set

Re: Final soprano release

2012-06-28 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/28/2012 11:41 AM, Allen Winter wrote: On Wednesday 27 June 2012 11:56:05 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Dimecres, 27 de juny de 2012, a les 17:28:47, Allen Winter va escriure: On Wednesday 27 June 2012 4:29:06 AM Sebastian Trüg wrote: done. On 06/25/2012 11:31 PM, Albert Astals Cid

Re: KDE 4.8.5 planning

2012-07-05 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/05/2012 11:31 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Thursday, July 05, 2012 05:01:58 PM Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Am 05.07.2012 13:00, schrieb Dirk Mueller: Hi, I guess with all the kdelibs mess we should redo another 4.8.5 release. Does anyone have suggestions for a release plan? I would like to

Re: KDE 4.8.5 planning

2012-07-05 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/05/2012 12:51 PM, Michael Jansen wrote: Also, *before* you start doing partial releases, please present an exact definition of the dependencies *between versions*. As i see that you are on the release-team list. May i ask why you voice your objections the exact same moment someone

Re: KSecrets State?

2012-07-10 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/10/2012 09:56 AM, Jeremy Whiting wrote: It seems it has been moved to playground from kdelibs, but the application in kdeutils is still sitting there. Shouldn't that be moved to playground also until it works? yes, +1 -- rex ___ release-team

Re: Release Script (KF5)

2012-07-12 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/12/2012 12:29 PM, Michael Jansen wrote: I will implement the ability to skip release for unchanged modules (fully automated) and would ask everyone here to really think twice before asking the release team to keep the current practice of releasing everything. Because there is no reason.

Re: Release Script (KF5)

2012-07-12 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/12/2012 12:43 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: Now, I'd have a much lesser concern if modules that are part of the 'kde development platform' at least are never skipped. Could you explain why? So, right now I can do a very simple runtime dependency for kde apps:

Re: Release Script (KF5)

2012-07-12 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/12/2012 01:25 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: But apart from that: could we start dreaming? Dreaming of a KDE where every application clearly defines what dependencies it has and exactly in a way that packagers can set up the dependencies in an automatic and correct way? Can we consider going

Re: Release Team BoF Summary

2012-07-16 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/16/2012 03:37 PM, Michael Jansen wrote: 4.5.70 is a stable release for anyone with experience in release numbers imo, that's a false assumption. anyone making that mistake deserves what they get. -- rex ___ release-team mailing list

Re: Release Team BoF Summary

2012-07-16 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/16/2012 05:41 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: On 07/16/2012 03:37 PM, Michael Jansen wrote: 4.5.70 is a stable release for anyone with experience in release numbers imo, that's a false assumption. anyone making that mistake deserves what they get. Hit enter too fast... I'm speaking mostly

Re: Virtuoso 6.1.5 is buggy

2012-07-17 Thread Rex Dieter
On 07/17/2012 10:25 AM, Martin Schlander wrote: Tirsdag den 17. juli 2012 20:38:25 Vishesh Handa skrev: Please avoid using Virtuoso 6.1.5 with Nepomuk from kde 4.9. Does that imply virtuoso 6.1.5 + KDE SC 4.8.x is a safe combo? reportedly yes (or at least better off than 6.1.5 + 4.9 anyway)

Re: The misterious case of oxygen-icons

2012-08-16 Thread Rex Dieter
On 08/16/2012 05:41 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: Or maybe the answers are * Why are we releasing it with the SC if it's not part of it? Because noone else wants to release it * Why is it not branched? Becuase it's not really part of the SC * What should we package with the tarball of

Re: The misterious case of oxygen-icons

2012-08-16 Thread Rex Dieter
On 08/16/2012 06:14 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: Do we really have a runtime dependency on oxygen-icons? My limited knowledge in the matter is that icon names are standarized thus you can use oxygen-icons or AlbertAwesomeImages (aai for friends) and it'll still work. Can someone with more

Re: The misterious case of oxygen-icons

2012-08-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 08/16/2012 06:48 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: So anybody objecting to document oxygen-iconset as a hard dependency in README.packagers in kde-runtime? no objection, good idea +1 -- rex ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org

Re: 4.9.3 tarballs available (for packagers)

2012-11-06 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/06/2012 07:55 AM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Friday 02 November 2012 01:38:55 Albert Astals Cid wrote: The tarballs can be found in their usual embargo location (available only to packagers) Did anyone built qyoto? I cannot build it with cmake 2.8.10, see

Re: libkdcraw api compatibility?

2012-11-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Andreas K. Huettel wrote: it seems like there are api-incompatible changes in libkdcraw-4.9.80 (compared to 4.9.x). ... No problem inside KDE proper, and I also know that digikam-3_betaX and kipi- plugins-3_betaX is fixed. However... Are there any other known third-party consumers for that?

Re: Patch needed in phonon-backend-gstreamer for fixing a bug in Dolphin and other players

2012-11-29 Thread Rex Dieter
On 11/28/2012 06:01 PM, Manuel Tortosa Moreno wrote: This patch: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/phonon/phonon- gstreamer/repository/revisions/2db4c430740da89fb22319b2ded63e770f3d6fac fixes an ugly issue with several players, specially Dragon is affected with a bug when using the

Re: kde-runtime kdelibs dep

2012-12-14 Thread Rex Dieter
On 12/14/2012 09:52 AM, David Faure wrote: If I commit the fix in kde-runtime without raising the kdelibs requirement, then a kdelibs-4.9 + kde-runtime-4.10 user, will end up with a nastier bug, where copying a directory out of the trash uses the right name, but flattens out the contents of the

Re: 4.10 RC1 tarballs available for packagers

2012-12-19 Thread Rex Dieter
On 12/19/2012 07:30 AM, Anke Boersma wrote: Seems this commit: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/9dd4218a5e16f29ea664c619b295ca1ce382f2cb makes the package kde-base-artwork obsolete, files from it are duplicated in kde-workspace build, causing conflicts on

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-02 Thread Rex Dieter
On 01/31/2013 03:42 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: We, as Arch Linux and Chakra-Project developers would like to propose now to follow the recommendation set by Dirk Mueller in the last long ml thread regarding this issue, and have the build packages from the tagged tars available to our testers

Re: Release Strategy Proposal

2013-04-26 Thread Rex Dieter
On 04/26/2013 08:37 AM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: Hi, 2013/4/26 Sebastian Kügler: Hi, tldr Let's make 4.11 the last feature release for platform and workspace in the 4 series, make 4.11 a long term maintainance release. /tldr I would like to propose the following for our release planning in

Re: Exception for Nepomuk Ebook Indexers

2013-06-20 Thread Rex Dieter
On 06/20/2013 07:51 AM, Vishesh Handa wrote: They introduce an optional dependency of libepub. It's already an optional dependency for okular, so I'm definitely ok with the addition here. -- rex ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org

Re: 4.11.0 tarballs available (for packagers)

2013-08-09 Thread Rex Dieter
On 08/09/2013 05:47 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. August 2013, 01:58:01 schrieb Albert Astals Cid: The tarballs can be found in their usual embargo location (available only to packagers) Marble python bindings fail to build. Tracked here,

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