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Subject: Fwd: Re: Fwd: KDE Frameworks Release Cycle
From: Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke () gmail ! com>
Date: 2014-04-30 8:41:30
Message-ID: 10776217.hOUefhXnZP () hqvmt4xx20 ! eur ! cchbc ! com
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On Wednesday 30 April 2014 10:17:23 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2014 23:20:21 Lisandro Dami=E1n Nicanor P=E9rez Meyer=
wrote:
> > The result will be that we will need to freeze at some point and do our
> > best to keep up with patches for stable releases. Or maybe even drop KF5
> > for stable releases :-/
> =
> While I don't share the fatalistic point of Lisandro, I do agree that it
> brings potential problems. I do also expect a Debian to ship with a very
> patched-up set of KF5 packages.
For openSUSE it will definitely bring problems as that we wouldn't be able =
to =
release any maintenance updates anymore for the KDE Desktop with this Relea=
se =
Cycle. As Sune indicated, if KF5 is updated then the other components like =
Plasma-Next and the Applications needs to be rebuild. This is not the curre=
nt =
setup of the openSUSE maintenance process, nor will this change just for KF=
5. =
This means that the only way for us is to start back-porting the bugfixes a=
nd =
release those as maintenance updates in order to provide a stable experienc=
e =
for our users. =
If the other components would select a similar Release Cycle, then this wou=
ld =
mean that the non-rolling distro's have to focus on a constant back-porting=
of =
bug-fixes and we would not provide our users with newer functionality. Thi=
s =
would eliminate the main goal that this Release Cycle is targeting (To =
introduce new functionality gradually) as that the main distributions would =
skip several KF5 releases before a new distribution version is released to =
the =
users. =
Seeing it more black and white, then indeed distributions might want to mak=
e =
the choice whether or not to include the KDE Desktop in their stable =
distributions releases and to find another way to provide a different way f=
or =
users to install it and having the rolling releases there. But as indicate=
d =
in other emails, is this really the experience we want to give to our users=
? =
Regards
Raymond
openSUSE KDE Community Packaging Team
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