Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-06-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, May 04, 2014 14:38:01 Martin Graesslin wrote: ... I think it's great that Kubuntu does downstream testing. But what would be much better is if Kubuntu would do the testing upstream. E.g. I'm sometimes too scared to take a patch into the branch as it doesn't get tested. Thus

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 at 09:19:57, Raymond Wooninck wrote: It seems that you really have a big issue with openSUSE because of bluedevil. At the moment that the Gnome team indicated that they didn't had any choice than to ship Bluez5 (as that the Gnome version only would support Bluez5), I

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
I'm chiming in late on this discussion, but: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 at 23:20:21, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: I don't know how other major distros with focus in stability work, but I think they will be more or less in the same position (I'm thinking in Red Hat, Centos, Suse

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-23 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 17:29:10 Michael Pyne wrote: Sort of (and I would volunteer to do this for the one module I maintain). But not every frameworks module has an assigned volunteer, and not all volunteers would necessarily also want to maintain a separate stable branch. imho this would

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-21 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello, On Tuesday 20 May 2014 16:38:54 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: keeping in mind that this thread is not about Plasma or any of the KDE applications, the expectations and goals of the *Frameworks* developers _and_ users (app devs) are probably unique in this case. the Frameworks team would

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-21 Thread Mario Fux
Good morning crowd Looks like we've more or less an agreement or idea that could work for most of us. - Monthly features releases of KF5 with keyword for bugs to backport. - 6/12 monthly (still to be decided) stable branches (with optionally a release script that tags it monthly, is this

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:32:49 Mario Fux wrote: Good morning crowd Looks like we've more or less an agreement or idea that could work for most of us. - Monthly features releases of KF5 with keyword for bugs to backport. - 6/12 monthly (still to be decided) stable branches (with

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-21 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:17:15 Kevin Ottens wrote: The aim is the following in my books: Thanks :) Obviously the difficult point as certainty goes is the last one, as it is highly dependent on the amount of contributions which mainly come from volunteers and on the amount of time

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-21 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 11:28:45 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:17:15 Kevin Ottens wrote: The aim is the following in my books: Thanks :) Obviously the difficult point as certainty goes is the last one, as it is highly dependent on the amount of contributions which

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 16:12:50 Kevin Ottens wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2014 11:28:45 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:17:15 Kevin Ottens wrote: ... This type of branch got actually discussed before making the initial proposal, it's not that we don't like the

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-21 Thread Michael Pyne
On Wed, May 21, 2014 22:40:07 Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 16:12:50 Kevin Ottens wrote: On Wednesday 21 May 2014 11:28:45 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:17:15 Kevin Ottens wrote: ... This type of branch got actually discussed before

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Monday 19 May 2014 22:28:27 Scott Kitterman wrote: Speaking as a packager for a distro that's in group #2, I don't see this as any change from your initial proposal. That's correct... You're proposal moves us into group #1 ... which is what I stated I think. Chosen extracts: Going

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Kevin Ottens er...@kde.org wrote: On Monday 19 May 2014 22:28:27 Scott Kitterman wrote: Speaking as a packager for a distro that's in group #2, I don't see this as any change from your initial proposal. That's correct... You're proposal moves us into group

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 19:07:41 Ben Cooksley wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Kevin Ottens er...@kde.org wrote: snip Now, I think we'll have to agree to disagree on something. You believe there's some rule written in stone somewhere which will make the everyone will pile up backports

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 20, 2014 4:19:26 AM EDT, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 19:07:41 Ben Cooksley wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Kevin Ottens er...@kde.org wrote: snip Now, I think we'll have to agree to disagree on something. You believe there's some rule

Re: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:19:59 Scott Kitterman wrote: On May 20, 2014 4:19:26 AM EDT, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 19:07:41 Ben Cooksley wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Kevin Ottens er...@kde.org wrote: snip Now, I think we'll have to

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 13:28:29 Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:19:59 Scott Kitterman wrote: On May 20, 2014 4:19:26 AM EDT, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 19:07:41 Ben Cooksley wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Kevin Ottens

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 08:04:59 Kevin Ottens wrote: On Monday 19 May 2014 22:28:27 Scott Kitterman wrote: Speaking as a packager for a distro that's in group #2, I don't see this as any change from your initial proposal. That's correct... You're proposal moves us into group #1

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:19:59 Scott Kitterman wrote: On May 20, 2014 4:19:26 AM EDT, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com So after 5.0, 5.0.1 is released with minor features and bugfixes (but no mandatory changes in dependencies at all); which continues until January, when 5.1 comes out,

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:55:26 Scott Kitterman wrote: I'm open to discussing change, but so far the change is You're on your own, get over it. Not a lot to discuss in that. It's not at all the way it's been thought, it is unfortunate if it is perceived that way. Looks like I can't frame and

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 14:07:02 Kevin Ottens wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:55:26 Scott Kitterman wrote: I'm open to discussing change, but so far the change is You're on your own, get over it. Not a lot to discuss in that. It's not at all the way it's been thought, it is unfortunate

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 08:00:43 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 08:04:59 Kevin Ottens wrote: On Monday 19 May 2014 22:28:27 Scott Kitterman wrote: Speaking as a packager for a distro that's in group #2, I don't see this as any change from your initial proposal.

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Mario Fux
Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2014, 14.09:18 schrieb Scott Kitterman: Morning Scott On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 14:07:02 Kevin Ottens wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:55:26 Scott Kitterman wrote: I'm open to discussing change, but so far the change is You're on your own, get over it. Not a lot to

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 20, 2014 8:27:39 AM EDT, Kevin Ottens er...@kde.org wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 08:00:43 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 08:04:59 Kevin Ottens wrote: On Monday 19 May 2014 22:28:27 Scott Kitterman wrote: Speaking as a packager for a distro that's in group #2, I don't

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 08:52:39 Scott Kitterman wrote: That's how it comes across to me. There was a lot of negative feedback the first time and the reaction to that comes across to me as a patronizing repetition of the initial proposal wrapped up in IMO unfounded assurances that it would be

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 20, 2014 8:52:30 AM EDT, Mario Fux kde...@unormal.org wrote: Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2014, 14.09:18 schrieb Scott Kitterman: Morning Scott On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 14:07:02 Kevin Ottens wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2014 07:55:26 Scott Kitterman wrote: I'm open to discussing change, but so

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi ... it would be interesting to see a true cost/benefit analysis using real data of the benefits of the monthly bug fix releases. in support of what Kevin is going after here: the monthly bugfix releases sound awesome on paper, but they don't always work. i've seen significant regressions

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Frank Reininghaus
Hi, 2014-05-20 13:19 GMT+02:00 Scott Kitterman: We've pushed nearly every point release to end users throughout the KDE4 cycle. I use them myself. Your characterization of the KDE4 point releases doesn't match my experience. here is just one recent example, where someone pushed a commit to

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 20, 2014 10:38:54 AM EDT, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: hi ... it would be interesting to see a true cost/benefit analysis using real data of the benefits of the monthly bug fix releases. It would. I've no idea how to do it. My impression is providing them is popular with our

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 20, 2014 10:41:04 AM EDT, Frank Reininghaus frank7...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, 2014-05-20 13:19 GMT+02:00 Scott Kitterman: We've pushed nearly every point release to end users throughout the KDE4 cycle. I use them myself. Your characterization of the KDE4 point releases doesn't match my

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-20 Thread Michael Pyne
On Tue, May 20, 2014 16:38:54 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: in support of what Kevin is going after here: the monthly bugfix releases sound awesome on paper, but they don't always work. i've seen significant regressions in recent releases due to patches being backported with poor judgment, resulting

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-19 Thread Kevin Ottens
Hello all, First of all, my apologies for the long time taken for me to send an email. So, this release cycle proposal generated more debate among our dear packagers than we anticipated. I tried to keep up with the thread, but too be honest it's far too long at that point and also the

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-19 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, May 19, 2014 15:18:49 Kevin Ottens wrote: Hello all, First of all, my apologies for the long time taken for me to send an email. So, this release cycle proposal generated more debate among our dear packagers than we anticipated. I tried to keep up with the thread, but too be

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-05 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Sunday, May 04, 2014 02:38:01 PM Martin Graesslin wrote: I think it's great that Kubuntu does downstream testing. But what would be much better is if Kubuntu would do the testing upstream. E.g. I'm sometimes too scared to take a patch into the branch as it doesn't get tested. Thus

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-04 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 21:56:12 Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: For non-rolling distros, at some point you have to stop and release. A mix of new features and bug fixes

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 4, 2014 4:25:25 AM EDT, Martin Graesslin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 21:56:12 Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: For non-rolling distros, at some point

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-04 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Sunday 04 May 2014 08:09:21 Scott Kitterman wrote: On May 4, 2014 4:25:25 AM EDT, Martin Graesslin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 21:56:12 Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-02 Thread Harald Sitter
(sorry that the mail go so long :/) For everything I am going to say please keep in mind two things: a) there's barely any distribution that actually releases in alignment with KDE the feature version release day. So because only the previous feature release is supported from a KDE POV, the

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-01 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 15:36:10 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 08:16:48 Scott Kitterman wrote: I get what you're asking for. What I'm trying to make clear is you aren't going to get it. Well, I'd say we try. Isn't there a chance Frameworks 5 WILL be quite relevant

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-01 Thread Harald Sitter
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Michael Pyne mp...@kde.org wrote: Also ideally, we should break with this tendency of upstream/downstream and you should become upstream, I would love to see opensuse (and others) keeping the release you picked maintained in a branch. I think this is wishful

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 1, 2014 4:06:07 AM EDT, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 15:36:10 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 08:16:48 Scott Kitterman wrote: I get what you're asking for. What I'm trying to make clear is you aren't going to get it.

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-01 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Harald Sitter wrote: On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Michael Pyne mp...@kde.org wrote: Also ideally, we should break with this tendency of upstream/downstream and you should become upstream, I would love to see opensuse (and others) keeping the release you picked maintained in a branch. I

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-01 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
I think this is so far the more insightful thing I have read so far. ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-01 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 21:39:36 Alexander Neundorf wrote: Especially with all the KF5 bits is versioned bound to each others (so that to fix a bug in one component, you need to update *everything* - are you assuming that or is this indeed the case ? Do all frameworks depend on the

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-01 Thread Michael Pyne
On Thu, May 1, 2014 11:13:47 Harald Sitter wrote: On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Michael Pyne mp...@kde.org wrote: Also ideally, we should break with this tendency of upstream/downstream and you should become upstream, I would love to see opensuse (and others) keeping the release you

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-05-01 Thread Michael Pyne
On Thu, May 1, 2014 21:20:06 Sune Vuorela wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 21:39:36 Alexander Neundorf wrote: Especially with all the KF5 bits is versioned bound to each others (so that to fix a bug in one component, you need to update *everything* - are you assuming that or is

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 23:20:21 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: The result will be that we will need to freeze at some point and do our best to keep up with patches for stable releases. Or maybe even drop KF5 for stable releases :-/ While I don't share the fatalistic point of

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Mario Fux
Am Mittwoch, 30. April 2014, 04.20:21 schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: Morning For Ubuntu I can use the Firefox example. So can you explain why is KF5 different than firefox? Firefox (and Chromium too) are handled like no other packages in the archive. It's the best

Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Raymond Wooninck
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 10:17:23 Sune Vuorela wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 23:20:21 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: The result will be that we will need to freeze at some point and do our best to keep up with patches for stable releases. Or maybe even drop KF5 for stable

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Wolfgang Rohdewald
Am Mittwoch, 30. April 2014, 10:17:23 schrieb Sune Vuorela: So quite many users will end up using patched-up versions of KF5 if every distro has its own patched version, bug reporting and fixing will get much more difficult. Where should a bug be reported? The only logical choice seems to be

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On April 30, 2014 3:32:02 AM EDT, Mario Fux kde...@unormal.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, 30. April 2014, 04.20:21 schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: Morning For Ubuntu I can use the Firefox example. So can you explain why is KF5 different than firefox? Firefox (and Chromium too)

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 10:41:30 Raymond Wooninck wrote: For openSUSE it will definitely bring problems as that we wouldn't be able to release any maintenance updates anymore for the KDE Desktop with this Release Cycle. As Sune indicated, if KF5 is updated then the other components like

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: For non-rolling distros, at some point you have to stop and release. A mix of new features and bug fixes aren't going to be allowed in. We (Kubuntu) have been delivering KDE SC point releases as post-release updates to our users for

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 05:24:55 Scott Kitterman wrote: Since we release on a different schedule, with monthly KF5 releases, we'd all be interested in supporting different releases. Which is already the case, I mentioned in another reply that Opensuse has had releases with X.X.5 (so

Re: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: For non-rolling distros, at some point you have to stop and release. A mix of new features and bug fixes aren't going to be allowed in. We (Kubuntu) have been delivering KDE

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Raymond Wooninck
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 11:28:26 Àlex Fiestas wrote: Having a release every month will allow distributions to package fresher versions of frameworks since we will virtually remove the synchronization problem. As an example, Opensuse released 13.1 with KDE 4.8.5 iirc, which already had no

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 21:54:17 Scott Kitterman wrote: On April 29, 2014 7:30:50 PM EDT, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 19:23:07, Scott Kitterman va escriure: On April 29, 2014 2:07:52 PM EDT, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Raymond Wooninck
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 12:15:34 Àlex Fiestas wrote: Not really, the plan is the following: Update frameworks all the times since it will make everybody life easier and will improve quality (we strongly believe that, if not we wouldn't do it). A non rolling-distro can do this without

Re: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Luca Beltrame
Martin Gräßlin wrote: Hello Martin, Actually I think there is nothing wrong with having something like an LTS release which is maintained by the distros. I recently read that This is going to be difficult, to be honest. I can't speak for other distros but in openSUSE *all* the KDE packaging

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 12:04:15 Raymond Wooninck wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 11:28:26 Àlex Fiestas wrote: Having a release every month will allow distributions to package fresher versions of frameworks since we will virtually remove the synchronization problem. As an example,

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 12:20:51 Luca Beltrame wrote: Martin Gräßlin wrote: Hello Martin, Actually I think there is nothing wrong with having something like an LTS release which is maintained by the distros. I recently read that This is going to be difficult, to be honest. I can't

Re: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 12:33:06 Àlex Fiestas wrote: We are all on the same situation and we have to make the best of it. We believe that e can do best if we focus on master and make sure master rocks, it has no regressions etc. Obviously, if we are able to increase the quality of overall

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Raymond Wooninck
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 12:26:14 Àlex Fiestas wrote: Here you have the link to the release that released with an almost out of support version: https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Features_12.2#KDE_Plasma_Workspaces As you can see, the link shows the features of OpenSuse 12.2 featuring

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On April 30, 2014 6:26:14 AM EDT, Àlex Fiestas afies...@kde.org wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 12:04:15 Raymond Wooninck wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 11:28:26 Àlex Fiestas wrote: Having a release every month will allow distributions to package fresher versions of frameworks since we

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 12:15:34 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 21:54:17 Scott Kitterman wrote: On April 29, 2014 7:30:50 PM EDT, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 19:23:07, Scott Kitterman va escriure: On April 29, 2014

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: For non-rolling distros, at some point you have to stop and release. A mix of new features and bug fixes aren't going to be allowed in. We (Kubuntu) have been delivering KDE

Re: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 08:24:43 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: For non-rolling distros, at some point you have to stop and release. A mix of new features and bug fixes aren't

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Raymond Wooninck
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 14:39:31 Martin Gräßlin wrote: I know that this is a change from how it is right now: but wouldn't it be better if those who are interested do these branches? Let's face it whatever we do upstream cannot suite all of our downstreams at the same time. If I take your

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 14:39:31 Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 08:24:43 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: For non-rolling distros, at some point you have to

Re: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 15:08:55 Raymond Wooninck wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 14:39:31 Martin Gräßlin wrote: I know that this is a change from how it is right now: but wouldn't it be better if those who are interested do these branches? Let's face it whatever we do upstream cannot

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 08:16:48 Scott Kitterman wrote: I get what you're asking for. What I'm trying to make clear is you aren't going to get it. Well, I'd say we try. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 07:50:02 Scott Kitterman wrote: The difference is that you will do proper testing with all the QA in place on each distros, we don't have such thing upstream beyond the tests. As for the mess, each distro picks their version as you said and you (as in distros)

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 12:20:51 Luca Beltrame wrote: [snip] As for Frameworks, we have ~20 maintainers for ~60 frameworks, and most of them are not paid to work on it either. We are all on the same situation and we have to make the best of it. We believe that e can

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 13:44:50 Raymond Wooninck wrote: So, you will not simply update to 4.14.X but instead do cherry-picking of the bug fixes? Because that would be the same with Frameworks. You got that one wrong :) We push the 4.14.x release as a full maintenance update. So if

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 11:00:39 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: This is a point in which I fully agree, and even if it doesn't solves any of the things we are discussing it's good to acknowledge: we are very low on man power, both upstream and most of us dowstreamers. The amount

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, (Disclaimer: I'm not a KDE packager, just a user and an occasional contributor) It is, you (as in opensuse) just have to get over the drama of having small features in on each release. Let's try to analyze a bit why some distros have this panic to new versions containing features

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On April 30, 2014 9:56:30 AM EDT, Àlex Fiestas afies...@kde.org wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 07:50:02 Scott Kitterman wrote: The difference is that you will do proper testing with all the QA in place on each distros, we don't have such thing upstream beyond the tests. As for the mess,

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 16:22:43 Ralf Jung wrote: Hi, (Disclaimer: I'm not a KDE packager, just a user and an occasional contributor) It is, you (as in opensuse) just have to get over the drama of having small features in on each release. Let's try to analyze a bit why some

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Raymond Wooninck
On Wednesday 30 April 2014 17:24:42 Àlex Fiestas wrote: This is a problem that already exists, for example in bluedevil I have had enormous problems because distros would have either an ancient version or a git snapshot. I was already waiting for this story to re-appear again. Current

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread šumski
On Wednesday 30 of April 2014 17:24:42 Àlex Fiestas wrote: ... So with frameworks I think we can compromise with something like last 5 releases and turn off auto reporting for anything older than that (this is just an example). This essentially means distros (non-rolling ones at least) would

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Harald Sitter
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Raymond Wooninck tittiatc...@gmail.com wrote: So with frameworks I think we can compromise with something like last 5 releases and turn off auto reporting for anything older than that (this is just an example). So in other words, this means that you are

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:17:23 Sune Vuorela wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 23:20:21 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: The result will be that we will need to freeze at some point and do our best to keep up with patches for stable releases. Or maybe even drop KF5 for stable

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 15:51:56 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2014 13:44:50 Raymond Wooninck wrote: So, you will not simply update to 4.14.X but instead do cherry-picking of the bug fixes? Because that would be the same with Frameworks. You got that one wrong :)

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: For non-rolling distros, at some point you have to stop and release. A mix of new features and bug fixes aren't going to be allowed in. We (Kubuntu) have been delivering KDE

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Michael Pyne
On Wed, April 30, 2014 11:28:26 Àlex Fiestas wrote: As for the backporting, you could use bugzilla (even via api) to get a list of everything that has been fixed, get the SHA and backport it automatically, that will ease a lot the process. Is there any reason we can't do this? Even if it's a

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-30 Thread Michael Pyne
On Wed, April 30, 2014 15:51:56 Àlex Fiestas wrote: So, I understand that for big releases you wouldn't trust us on no regressions, but please take into account that these releases will be a completely different monster. Finally, could you (or any packager with similar concerns) explain to

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-29 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag 27 April 2014, 15:15:32 schrieb David Faure: We ended up settling on the one month cycle, no branch option because we think it should address the constraints above. In a more detailed way here is what we mean by one month cycle, no branch: * Everything is developed in master, so

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-29 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 15:04:59, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: Am Sonntag 27 April 2014, 15:15:32 schrieb David Faure: We ended up settling on the one month cycle, no branch option because we think it should address the constraints above. In a more detailed way here is

Re: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-29 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 15:04:59, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: Practically this just means that what used to be the stable branch now becomes the distribution patch collection. No, it means that you use the next release as you would do now since it will have the bug you

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-29 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 19:55:42, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 15:04:59, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: Practically this just means that what used to be the stable branch now becomes the distribution patch collection. No,

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On April 29, 2014 2:07:52 PM EDT, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 19:55:42, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 15:04:59, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: Practically this just means that what used to be the

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-29 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 19:23:07, Scott Kitterman va escriure: On April 29, 2014 2:07:52 PM EDT, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 19:55:42, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 15:04:59, Andreas K.

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On April 29, 2014 7:30:50 PM EDT, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 19:23:07, Scott Kitterman va escriure: On April 29, 2014 2:07:52 PM EDT, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimarts, 29 d'abril de 2014, a les 19:55:42, Andreas K. Huettel va

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-29 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 21:54:17 Scott Kitterman wrote: [snip] For Ubuntu I can use the Firefox example. So can you explain why is KF5 different than firefox? Firefox (and Chromium too) are handled like no other packages in the archive. It's the best known (to average computer users) FOSS

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-28 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Sunday, April 27, 2014 15:55:07 Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Diumenge, 27 d'abril de 2014, a les 15:15:32, David Faure va escriure: FYI. Interesting fact here that original the mail was just sent to k-f-d and k-c-d. I am seeing similar patterns in the plasma land, where they went their

Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-27 Thread David Faure
FYI. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle Date: Sunday 27 April 2014, 11:51:01 From: Kevin Ottens er...@kde.org To: kde-frameworks-de...@kde.org CC: kde-core-de...@kde.org Hello people, As you may have noticed, we're covering quite a few tasks here

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-27 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Diumenge, 27 d'abril de 2014, a les 15:15:32, David Faure va escriure: FYI. Interesting fact here that original the mail was just sent to k-f-d and k-c-d. I am seeing similar patterns in the plasma land, where they went their own way with the releasing discussion and only sent to this list

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-27 Thread David Faure
On Sunday 27 April 2014 15:55:07 Albert Astals Cid wrote: Interesting fact here that original the mail was just sent to k-f-d and k-c-d. That was my suggestion, to avoid cross-posting to 4 lists everytime someone answers, which always creates issues because kde-packager@ is moderated. I am

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-27 Thread Albert Astals Cid
Longer answer now that i'm no longer on the move :) El Diumenge, 27 d'abril de 2014, a les 16:09:27, David Faure va escriure: On Sunday 27 April 2014 15:55:07 Albert Astals Cid wrote: Interesting fact here that original the mail was just sent to k-f-d and k-c-d. That was my suggestion, to

Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle

2014-04-27 Thread David Faure
On Sunday 27 April 2014 17:14:43 Albert Astals Cid wrote: i'm just stating that both schedules were discussed outside this list Ah, sorry, now I understand better the purpose of your email. Well, it is often the case that discussions that normally happen on mailing- lists, happen differently

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