On Thursday, September 29, 2011 08:01:00 PM Kevin Kofler wrote: > On Thursday 29 September 2011, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: > > From what I remember from the desktop summit the picture you draw here > > is > > quite an exaggeration of what is actually happening. > > > > kdelibs 4.7 is meant to be frozen for new features, but not for > > bugfixes. > > Bugfix releases of kdelibs-4.7 happenend and I'm sure will continue on > > happening. As for the versioning I don't see why one of those bugfix > > releases couldn't be rebranded as 4.8.0 if that makes things easier > > (that > > was even briefly mentioned at the release team BoF). It does not solve > > feature backports of course. > > But one of my points is that we need features too, not just bugfixes. > Continuing 4.7.x releases solves the problem of bugfixes just fine, but > entirely fails to address the issue of features.
Even worse, features have already creeped into the 4.7 branch because they are needed and there's no 4.8 branch, so this isn't a theorectical point. Scott K _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel