El Divendres, 25 d'abril de 2014, a les 21:09:34, Mario Fux va escriure: > Morning gals and guys > > First: there are several mailing lists in the "TO:" above but please just > write to the kde-devel mailing list for this discussion. > > As the release schedule for our KDE applications in the version 4.14 [1] > were finalized at the beginning of this week it's time to discuss if 4.14 > should become a LTS release (e.g. until August 2015 like KDE Workspaces > 4.11) or if we need (at least) another features release and thus 4.15? > > So what do you think? And most important, what do you, the KDE apps > developers, think? Do you plan to develop new features with Qt4 and the KDE > Platform 4 or do you plan to port your application to the KDE Frameworks 5 > as soon as they have a stable release (like this June ;-).
In my opinion we should not release KDE Applications 4.14 LTS and we should not release KDE Applications 4.15 either. We should just release KDE Applications 2014.12, that is, the set of KDE Applications that was released on December 2014. In that set of applications we can release both applications based in kdelibs4 and in KF5. There is nothing that prevents us doing that since now almost every other application is in it's own repository (kdepim* and kdeplasma-addongs being the only exceptions where it should be an repo-decision and not app-decision) By letting applications choose when they want to change from shipping a kdelibs4 based version to shipping a KF5 based version we ensure we do a smooth as possible transition instead of ending with "it compiles ship-it" stuff in KF5 versions. Of course this may mean some people decide not to never do a KF5 port since they prefer to keep adding features instead in investing time in porting to a more future-proof foundation like KF5 is, so we should have a limit, let's say "KDE Applications 2015.12" as the last "KDE Applications" release in which we would accept kdelibs4-based applications. Cheers, Albert > > Best regards > Mario > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe > >> << >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
