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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: PIM: Version alignment
From:       Ben Cooksley <bcooksley () kde ! org>
Date:       2016-09-16 20:22:20
Message-ID: CA+XidOGmj6xNNf-GD4Dp34SUEFLyzcYjdPUoO7CxY3ZN4AUGzQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:55 AM, David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 16 September 2016 11:55:50 BST, Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:52:32PM +1200, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>>>
>>>  It seems that KDE PIM, despite being part of the Applications release,
>>>  doesn't align it's internal version numbers with the rest of the
>>>  Applications release.
>>>
>>>  This causes issues - as we've received complaints about various
>>>  products (all being PIM products) missing versions on bugs.kde.org,
>>>  due to this mismatch. It's also confusing for users.
>>>
>>>  Can PIM please fall in line with the rest of Applications?
>>
>>
>> This is common across lots of apps in Applications.  e.g. Umbrello is at
>> 2.20.99 internally.  It's always been the case.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>
> This idea was discussed a year or two ago, and it was agreed then that
> applications would keep their own version numbering, if desired.
>
> The KDE Applications version is simply a date indication. It's very useful,
> for developers who want it, to be able to have an individual application
> version which has a meaning in functional terms.
>
> I strongly disagree with this proposal to change version numbers.

Unfortunately all it leads to is user confusion as to what they've
actually installed.

From their perspective their distribution shipped them Applications
15.10 (as that will be what the release notes say) yet when they got
to report a bug they won't find those version numbers. Also, these
versions have already been added on Bugzilla, so the confusion is
present amongst our own developers as well.

From my perspective, this discord should be eliminated by harmonizing
the version numbers.

>
> --
> David Jarvie
> KAlarm author, KDE developer
> http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

Regards,
Ben
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