Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.09.22 um 14:57 schrieb Neal Gompa: On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 5:41 AM Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.09.22 um 11:42 schrieb samuel ammonius: Thanks. I hadn't thought of a lot of these issues before. I think the biggest one is that If there's an update that the package manager didn'tknow

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 5:41 AM Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 09.09.22 um 11:42 schrieb samuel ammonius: > > Thanks. I hadn't thought of a lot of these issues before. > > > > I think the biggest one is that If there's an update that the package > > manager didn'tknow about, the user would have

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.09.22 um 11:42 schrieb samuel ammonius: Thanks. I hadn't thought of a lot of these issues before. I think the biggest one is that If there's an update that the package manager didn'tknow about, the user would have to update right after installing, and the bug would come back if the

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-09 Thread samuel ammonius
Thanks. I hadn't thought of a lot of these issues before. I think the biggest one is that If there's an update that the package manager didn't know about, the user would have to update right after installing, and the bug would come back if the user re-installed or updated the app. Sorry

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-09 Thread Jeremy Whiting
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 12:51 PM samuel ammonius wrote: > 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

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-09 Thread Konstantin Kharlamov
I'm sad other emails sound kinda harsh and without detailed elaboration. Folks, please, let's keep the discussion peaceful. Different people have different set of knowledge, that's life. Angry comments would push people away from the community. On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 19:23 -0230, samuel ammonius

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.09.22 um 23:53 schrieb 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

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: 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

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

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-07 Thread mail
On 2022-09-07 16:28, 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. Ta I

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-07 Thread Harald Sitter
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. Ta

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-07 Thread mail
On 2022-09-06 19:41, Nate Graham wrote: To revive this thread, I think the issue is that it feels sort of subjective what kind of bugs are bad enough that we think like a new release is worth it. So maybe we can try to get specific and say that we should make a new release for fixes of Bugzilla

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-06 Thread Nate Graham
To revive this thread, I think the issue is that it feels sort of subjective what kind of bugs are bad enough that we think like a new release is worth it. So maybe we can try to get specific and say that we should make a new release for fixes of Bugzilla bug reports where: - Priority is VHI

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-08-26 Thread Nate Graham
On 8/25/22 22:59, Albert Astals Cid wrote: c) Who decides which bugs "are important" because for every bug, there's always a person out there that thinks it's the most important bug ever. d) What do we release? i.e. imagine we find one of those "important bugs" in dolphin and we have to release

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-08-26 Thread Jonathan Riddell
As a distro packaging it's much easier and more reliable to just let the new version get added automatically to our builds. As a release manager it shouldn't be any harder to automate making a new bugfix release. I do this already for Plasma when requested. It should be the default method.

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-08-25 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dijous, 25 d’agost de 2022, a les 18:55:08 (CEST), Nate Graham va escriure: > Hello everyone, > Right now when we fix a significant bug in our software that may take a > while to reach users to to the release schedule of its repo, we contact > distros and ask them to backport it. This puts the

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-08-25 Thread Justin Zobel
Same here, I like the idea of point releases to fix impactful bugs. On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:56 PM Harald Sitter wrote: > make sense to me > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:55 PM Nate Graham wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > Right now when we fix a significant bug in our software that may take a

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-08-25 Thread Harald Sitter
make sense to me On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:55 PM Nate Graham wrote: > > Hello everyone, > Right now when we fix a significant bug in our software that may take a > while to reach users to to the release schedule of its repo, we contact > distros and ask them to backport it. This puts the burden

New releases for bugfixes

2022-08-25 Thread Nate Graham
Hello everyone, Right now when we fix a significant bug in our software that may take a while to reach users to to the release schedule of its repo, we contact distros and ask them to backport it. This puts the burden on distros to react to us. I'm wondering how people feel about KDE instead