On Monday, December 01, 2014 04:32:25 PM Kees Cook wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:33:00PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Hola Tech Board, I'd like to ask for a Micro Release Exception for KDE > > Frameworks, or depending on how you look at it extending the KDE Micro > > Release Exception to KDE Frameworks. > > > > KDE Frameworks is the new name for kdelibs which was previously released > > with KDE SC.and we're done MRE updates for some years. > > > > The KDE Frameworks developer have said they don't have the manpower to > > make > > bugfix releases and instead are making monthly releases with both bigfixes > > and new features. There will be the same assurances of stable ABI, API > > and > > no new features coming from those ABIs. So any applications using these > > libraries will not be using any new features but will be using the > > bugfixes. > > > > Allowing the MRE will allow us to get bugfixes out to users, it'll also > > have the nice affect that developers wanting to use KDE Frameworks will > > have new versions available. > > This seems entirely reasonable to me. Almost seems like we should add > something to the MRE policy that says something like "MREs will track > package names if a package is moved". If this is truly just kdelibs > renamed, I see no problem at all. :)
It's not. The code is the same, but the maintenance philosophy is different. In kdelibs, it was bugfix only in micro-releases (and very consistent with our SRU policy). For KF5, it's different. There are no micro-releases (as a rule). There are only regular minor releases which include both new features and bug fixes. The new features are supposed to be isolated in new classes (AIUI) so that existing API/ABI remains stable. This is different than we normally do and it does not have a long track record yet. In theory, it might be OK, but in practice, I'm glad I don't have to decide. Scott K -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
