On Wednesday 26 March 2014 20:47:23 John Layt wrote: > On 26 March 2014 20:08, Kevin Ottens <er...@kde.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Tuesday 25 March 2014 16:41:12 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > >> Just imagine what header would you like to see on an > >> announcement/article: > >> * Frameworks 5 To Not Include Deprecated Technologies > >> * KDE Porting Aids To Have Three Releases > >> * Introducing KDE Porting Aids And Changes to Frameworks 5 > >> > >> I'm guessing the first, but - just checking. > > > > The first sounds negative to me, it'd sound like we completely drop them > > leaving people with no transition plan. Probably not the image we want to > > give... > > > > I think the third one although being more descriptive is the one with the > > least chances of being misrepresented. > > I'd say not to have this as a separate announcement on its own, it's > not that significant in itself. Instead, I'd just make it a section > of the next Frameworks release announcement (and future ones too) > saying something like: > > "KF5 Porting Aids. The Frameworks team have futher refined the > Framework classification model and have identified a new group called > the KF5 Porting Aids. These are Frameworks containing kdelibs4 > modules and api that are being deprecated in KF5 and are provided only > to assist applications in porting across to KF5. As such these > Frameworks will only have a limited support period, currently planned > to be three release cycles. Applications are strongly encouraged to > port away from these Frameworks during this support period to prevent > dependency on obsolete and unsupported code. Once support is ended, > some unofficial development may continue on some modules, but they > will not be part of the officially supported Frameworks release. The > Frameworks belonging to this group are: blah blah blah. "
Thanks, John, I used that as a base for the Beta 1 announcement. David, Kevin, others - what else should be in that announcement? What has changed, is new, disappeared, improved? /J > John. _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel