On Sunday 25 November 2007 10:03:03 Stephan Kulow wrote: > Am Sonntag 25 November 2007 schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > > A Diumenge 25 Novembre 2007, Allen Winter va escriure: > > > Howdy, > > > > > > Are we willing to permit BIC changes to the Dev Platform? > > > > The question you need to make yourself is: "Did we release the 4.0.0 for > > the Dev Platform?", techbase says yes, so the answer to that question is > > no BIC changes until 5.0.0 > > > > Obviously you can ignore that we said to have released 4.0.0 for the Dev > > Platform and call it "that was our 4.0.0 joke platform" and then allow > > BIC changes. > > That much about the theory. In practise no-one will develop KDE4 > applications at this point and is not willing to touch them anymore, so BIC > should not matter at all. > > As long as KDE4 isn't installed on people's machines, ISVs (3rd party > developers) won't ship binaries linked against it to people, so people > won't care if updating KDE4 breaks apps that do not exist. > > SIC are a big problem though. But for BC, you have to keep in mind what > you're doing it for, not just follow the rules because they've always been > followed.
We should tap into coolo's experience here. My proposal would be to have one last BIC (but SC) monday. That should get us the critical stuff/fallout, and not break things. I hope. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9
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