Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread samuel ammonius
> and you marry upstream binaries with the distribution update-manager how? You don't need to. The app can just check the latest bugfix for that version on git and install it if it isn't installed. I don't understand why you stress the need for the package manager to have anything to do with the

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.09.22 um 22:24 schrieb samuel ammonius: > because outside the windows world central package management is the norm > and based on "least privileges" applications must not have the > permissions to change itself I didn't mean a background update. I meant the user could get a dialog

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread samuel ammonius
> because outside the windows world central package management is the norm > and based on "least privileges" applications must not have the > permissions to change itself I didn't mean a background update. I meant the user could get a dialog or notification asking them to update, and if they

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.09.22 um 20:50 schrieb samuel ammonius: Bug fixes don't change the entire package, only the executable, so why can't apps just be programmed to update themselves? because outside the windows world central package management is the norm and based on "least privileges" applications

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread samuel ammonius
Bug fixes don't change the entire package, only the executable, so why can't apps just be programmed to update themselves? There could be precompiled binaries stored on the git repos of each project for a few CPU architectures, or maybe the app could even recompile itself inside /tmp since most

Re: Aura Browser in KDE Review

2022-09-08 Thread Aditya Mehra
Hi, Thanks for the reviews. * Application crash on shutdown fixed * Desktop file issues have been fixed * Executable name has been fixed to be lowercase * AppStream file has been added * SPDX licensing has been fixed * Reuse compliance has been added * KDE CI has been

Re: Plank Player in KDE Review

2022-09-08 Thread Aditya Mehra
Hi, Thanks for the reviews. * Desktop file issues have been fixed * AppStream file has been added * Reuse compliance has been added * KDE CI has been added * Screenshot merge request has been opened https://invent.kde.org/websites/product-screenshots/-/merge_requests/30 *

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Heiko Becker
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 13:59:43 CEST, Ahmad Samir wrote: From the git-archive manual page: «git archive behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as the modification time of each file in the archive. In

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Nate Graham
On 9/8/22 05:51, Nicolas Fella wrote: Hi, I don't think Nate or anyone wants to propose a strict policy that when X then Y has to happen. That's just not how we operate in KDE. I do think it is valuable though to discuss and create some guidelines/shared understanding/soft policy that

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 8/9/22 13:51, Nicolas Fella wrote: Hi, I don't think Nate or anyone wants to propose a strict policy that when X then Y has to happen. That's just not how we operate in KDE. I do think it is valuable though to discuss and create some guidelines/shared understanding/soft policy that

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Nicolas Fella
Hi, I don't think Nate or anyone wants to propose a strict policy that when X then Y has to happen. That's just not how we operate in KDE. I do think it is valuable though to discuss and create some guidelines/shared understanding/soft policy that maintainers can use as a reference when making

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, I think all 3 of us envision very similar things, we just have different things we think/talk about, and different understandings of Nate's suggestion. I for example understood that Nate suggests to make bugs matching the named criteria the *trigger* for making (or discussing) a new

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Harald Sitter
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 8:30 AM Sven Brauch wrote: > > Hi, > > On 9/7/22 17:28, Harald Sitter wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 5:20 PM wrote: > >> In most projects the maintainers who'd make a release decision are the > >> same people who triage bugs > > > > You quite clearly have no idea how

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Harald Sitter
I'm sorry, I neither wanted to upset nor insult. frameworks has 83 projects, plasma has 65 projects, release service has 297 = 445 projects to which your blanket statement does not apply. Their releases run on rails, that's why Nate suggests a way to introduce additional stops, as it were. On

The KDE Patchset Collection has been rebased on top of Qt 5.15.6

2022-09-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
The KDE Patchset Collection has been rebased on top of Qt 5.15.6 Cheers, Albert

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 9/7/22 17:28, Harald Sitter wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 5:20 PM wrote: In most projects the maintainers who'd make a release decision are the same people who triage bugs You quite clearly have no idea how this community works. I'll thank you not to misdirect discussions. in kate