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Subject: Re: Stability of Devel repos
From: Marco Martin <notmart () gmail ! com>
Date: 2012-11-23 13:22:09
Message-ID: 201211231422.09813.notmart () gmail ! com
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On Friday 23 November 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi,
> currently, our Devel repositories for Mer are in quite a broken state:
> Plasma crashes on start, Activities do not work and the Task switcher has
> a big graphical glitch.
> I assume hat at least some (if not all) of these problems were not caused
> by changes in the plasma-mobile repo, but in some other repo(s). Imo the
> fact that development in other KDE repositories may cause so much breakage
> in our Devel repos - and obviously is not "always stable" - severely
> limits the usefulness of our "always stable Master" concept: If a bug
> comes up, we always have to find out first whether it was caused by a
> change in our code or by a change in other components of KDE.
>
> That's why I'm thinking if maybe it makes more sense to not build our Devel
> packages from Git every day, but keep the latest stable versions and only
> build from Git if we actually depend on newer code. I don't know if that's
> technically feasible, but it would make it easier to see whether bugs were
> caused by us or not.
now that we are approaching 4.10, most of what is from master now will have to
be switched to 4.10 branches as soon they exist
--
Marco Martin
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