Re: Proposed adjustments to our release cycles

2012-06-17 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Sunday 17 June 2012 Inge Wallin wrote: The reasoning behind the move towards shorter release cycles is exactly the opposite of how large organizations reason when they select software. Remember the outcry when Firefox went to its current way of releasing. When Brazil rolls out KDE to 24

Re: Proposed adjustments to our release cycles

2012-06-17 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Friday 15 June 2012 Sebastian Kügler wrote: Opinions? The predictability and synchronicity of our current six month release cycle has a lot of benefits. It allows all contributors as well as consumers of our releases to plan ahead and minimizes release overhead. On the other hand it

Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Jacopo De Simoi
Dear kcd, I am thinking for a possible fix for bug #293576 [1], but I could not make up my mind so far. As far as I understand the situation is as follows: - There is no explicit way of setting the default file manager for the KDE workspace; however, there is an implicit way of doing

Re: Proposed adjustments to our release cycles

2012-06-17 Thread Ben
On 06/16/2012 09:44 PM, Inge Wallin wrote: My problem is with the second. While some people always want to have the latest and greatest, I wonder what it will do to stability. You didn't write anything above about how many bugfix updates any given version would receive. The shorter the release

Re: Proposed adjustments to our release cycles

2012-06-17 Thread Shaun Reich
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Inge Wallin i...@lysator.liu.se wrote: As far as I could understand from the above the main ideas are:  - Splitting the SC into 3 parts  - Shortening the release cycles significantly. It seems to me that a current trend in larger free software projects is to

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jacopo De Simoi wilder...@gmail.com wrote: Dear kcd,  I am thinking for a possible fix for bug #293576 [1], but I could not make up my mind so far. As far as I understand the situation is as follows: - There is no explicit way of setting the default file

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
That doesn't quite work, for me at least. See the bug I reported https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297720 Nobody seems to care though. On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, todd rme toddrme2...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jacopo De Simoi wilder...@gmail.com wrote: Dear

Qt Contributors Summit

2012-06-17 Thread John Layt
Hi, We have the Qt Contributors Summit coming next week and I thought we might want to try co-ordinate our efforts there like we did last year. I've created a new page at http://community.kde.org/KDE_at_QCS/QCS_2012 for KDE attendees to put down their details and any issues they want to see

Re: Re: Proposed adjustments to our release cycles

2012-06-17 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday, June 16, 2012 08:18:05 Maksim Orlovich wrote: How do you reconcile this proposal with our current troubles in 4.8.4, where you need certain particular combinations of two sets of libraries for things not to blow up? Your proposal increases the number of combinations in wide use,

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Jacopo De Simoi
On Sunday 17 June 2012 12:21:07 todd rme wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jacopo De Simoi wilder...@gmail.com wrote: Dear kcd, I am thinking for a possible fix for bug #293576 [1], but I could not make up my mind so far. As far as I understand the situation is as follows:

Re: Proposed adjustments to our release cycles

2012-06-17 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Sunday 17 June 2012 03:44:04 Inge Wallin wrote: As far as I could understand from the above the main ideas are: - Splitting the SC into 3 parts Yep. - Shortening the release cycles significantly. Nope. The presented numbers were totally made up and random just for illustration, could

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Thomas Lübking
afaics the original forum request turns out to be a misassumption about what remember does when opening with... - the should or could be add to associations checkbox (even if that would be done automatically, just for disambiation) a mounted media /is/ inode/directory, if you want to treat things

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 17.06.2012, 18:18 Uhr, schrieb Jacopo De Simoi wilder...@gmail.com: a mounted media /is/ inode/directory, if you want to treat things differently you'd need sth. more advanced that inspects path or content and runs a special app in case. - bash script + service file or write sth. with a

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Jacopo De Simoi
On Sunday 17 June 2012 19:17:41 Thomas Lübking wrote: You want to open directories with the default mime handler just as images or an mp3, that's why they're there. If someone sets an rm -rf $1 script as default directory handler, that's actually his problem - you can't fix stupidity. I

Re: Proposed adjustments to our release cycles

2012-06-17 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Divendres, 15 de juny de 2012, a les 13:05:44, Sebastian Kügler va escriure: Hi all, Hi During our sprint in Pineda de Mar, we sat down and thought about how our release cycles relate to the structures in our software, we came up with the following proposal we'd like you to consider and

Re: Qt Contributors Summit

2012-06-17 Thread Laszlo Papp
I've created a new page at http://community.kde.org/KDE_at_QCS/QCS_2012 I would suggest using QtCS on these wiki pages for consistency. From the event page: The Qt Contributors Summit (aka QtCS) is the main event of the Qt Project. Perhaps, it is just me, but the QtCS 2011 url is broken in

Re: Re: Proposed adjustments to our release cycles

2012-06-17 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 18 June 2012 00:26:13 Albert Astals Cid wrote: My concerns: * Need more people to do the tarball packaging/releasing (since if you propose to release that often you can't expect the same person to be doing packages almost weekly or byweekly given the release dates won't probably