From kde-devel  Wed Jun 04 21:00:26 2014
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:00:26 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE applications 4.14 LTS or 4.15?
Message-Id: <1719285.CagiHtkWog () xps>
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El Dimecres, 4 de juny de 2014, a les 09:52:59, Mario Fux va escriure:
> Am Mittwoch, 04. Juni 2014, 00.53:36 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> 
> Morning
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > My conclusion of this is:
> > > - 4.14 is LTS with a relaxed string and feature freeze (though ask
> > > before
> > > you do) like KDE 3.5.10 (or what it was).
> > > - Towards the end of 2014 we can start to release KDE applications based
> > > on KDE Platform 4 and based on KF5 together and decide then next year
> > > how we do KF5based application releases in the future and which modules
> > > and Co. - Definitely end Qt4/Platform 4 based releases in August 2015
> > > (when Plasma LTS ends) from the KDE side
> > > 
> > > Please speak up if you don't like this/want this otherwise I'll write an
> > > email with these conclusions at the end of next week.
> > 
> > I'm not sure i agree or maybe i don't understand what you mean :D
> > 
> > Are you waying that we should
> > 
> >  - Do 4.14 LTS
> > 
> > *and*
> > 
> >  - Release kdelibs4-based apps + KF5-based apps late in the year?
> > 
> > I see this things as one or the other, don't see what the 4.14 LTS gives
> > us
> > if we are going to continue releasing kdelibs4-based apps and for those
> > that are stable we have KF5-based.
> > 
> > That means a lot of work for devels, since we need to again care about 3
> > 
> > branches:
> >  - 4.14 LTS
> >  - 2014.12 release
> >  - trunk
> > 
> > I'm not sure what 4.14 LTS adds to the mix if we are just going to do mix
> > releases of kdelibs4+kf5-based apps.
> 
> Yes, you're right. Both (4.14 LTS and a bundle) wouldn't work. It's what you
> said:
> - Release KDE Applications 4.14 as we did for 4.13
> - And then from December onwards release bundles of kdelibs4/qt4 and kf5
> based application (for the kdelibs4/qt4 apps this would be "like" LTS: not
> really new feature, mostly bug fixes and gradually porting to KF5).


Ok, so basically do:
 * 4.14 as planned
 * 4.15 but we don't call it 4.15 and we call it 14.12 and contains 
kdelibs4/qt4 and kf5 based applications

Sounds good to me :)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> I hope that's clearer now.
> 
> Best regards
> Mario
> 
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