On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Allen Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 07 November 2011 10:18:15 AM Dawit A wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David Faure <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Thursday 29 September 2011 20:01:00 Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >> But one of my points is that we need features too, not just bugfixes. >> >> Continuing 4.7.x releases solves the problem of bugfixes just fine, but >> >> entirely fails to address the issue of features. >> > >> > But who is (or would be) working on features in kdecore | kdeui | kio | >> > kfile? >> >> Well this is over a month too late, but I have a enhancement change >> for kcookiejar that needs to go into kdelibs/kioslave for KDE 4.8. The >> patch has actually been pending for a merge since KDE 4.6. See >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54300. >> >> Unfortunately, I do not know how to proceed with committing the >> kdelibs portion of the patch without actually polluting the kdelibs >> 4.7.4 version. Waiting for the final December release of the final KDE >> 4.7.4 is one approach, but then the commit would be too late for the >> feature freeze. We either need to exempt kdelibs from the upcoming >> feature freeze or I need an exemption to commit these changes past the >> freeze times currently established for KDE 4.8 >> > Right. > I do think we are open to feature changes in kdelibs for the upcoming 4.8 > release. > > But those need to be handled on a case-by-case basis and investigated and > discussed. > We (the Release Team) need to know about such features very soon as freezes > are coming. > > I'm CC'ing the release-team on this. > > In this particular case, I looked at the patches involved and think we > should allow them > into kdelibs-KDE/4.7 branch... Mainly it looks like this patch adds the > ability to make > site cookies act like session cookies.
Right. The patch simply moves the idea of session cookies from being a global configuration option to a site specific option. That is it gets rid of the all or nothing approach currently employed. That gives the user a lot more control of how they deal with cookies. _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
