Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
> And stop attacking me everyone.  I'm just the messenger. > Sorry I responded at all Allen, I think nobody is attacking you. I'm sorry if you felt attacked. It's just at the eV sprint we realized the numbers we really really need to boost Join the Game because we need money. That's why we have b

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > Hello Lydia, > > On 22.11.2011 20:34, Lydia Pintscher wrote: >>> Anyway, releases of KDE are problematic enough for us packagers these >>> days without any additional last-minute dependencies and without >>> additional code being added tha

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Tuesday 22 November 2011 23:45:06 Allen Winter wrote: > > And stop attacking me everyone. I'm just the messenger. > Sorry I responded at all Please don't feel attacked. We are trying to find the best solution for KDE here. So it would be good, if we can simply have a rational discussion abou

Re: KDE 4.8 Beta1 tarballs uploaded (try#1)

2011-11-22 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Sunday 20 November 2011, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > kdelibs installs: > /usr/lib/libkactivities.so -> libkactivities.so.5 > /usr/lib/libkactivities.so.5 -> libkactivities.so.5.7.0 > /usr/lib/libkactivities.so.5.7.0 thanks. thats easy. removing experimental/libkactivities from kdelibs: 473b0d09

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Allen Winter
On Tuesday 22 November 2011 5:36:52 PM Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2011 18:42:46 Allen Winter wrote: > > > > Honestly, I'm not 100% in favor of the rock hard freeze approach in > > kdelibs. But the consensus is against me on that. So I have no power to > > reconsider. >

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Tuesday 22 November 2011 22:19:21 Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > > If you're committing that directly to the existing package(s), I fear > for the quality issues that might arise. I don't know if you're > subscribed to the packagers' list as well but critisism of the releases > since 4.0 is wide-spre

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Tuesday 22 November 2011 18:42:46 Allen Winter wrote: > > Honestly, I'm not 100% in favor of the rock hard freeze approach in > kdelibs. But the consensus is against me on that. So I have no power to > reconsider. We are talking about an exceptional case here. This is not about adding any ne

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Hello Lydia, On 22.11.2011 20:34, Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> Anyway, releases of KDE are problematic enough for us packagers these >> days without any additional last-minute dependencies and without >> additional code being added that has no technical merit whatsoever. > Can you explain what about

Re: KDE 4.8 Beta1 tarballs uploaded (try#1)

2011-11-22 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Tuesday 22 November 2011, nlecure...@mandriva.com wrote: > There is this blocking issue for 4.8 Beta1: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287212 Thanks, I agree. I've pushed a new tarball to ftp: d9e265d5ba134ffd73c5c0f6038a97b0 kde-workspace-4.7.80.tar.bz2 Greetings, Dirk

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 19:39, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On 22.11.2011 18:53, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >> Can't this go in as a bugfix for the a "recession hit us too and we >> need money" critical bug? > > And KDE e. V. only realised *now* it needs money? No, but only now did we have the idea a

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On 22.11.2011 18:53, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Can't this go in as a bugfix for the a "recession hit us too and we > need money" critical bug? And KDE e. V. only realised *now* it needs money? Anyway, releases of KDE are problematic enough for us packagers these days without any additional la

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Allen Winter wrote: > Honestly, I'm not 100% in favor of the rock hard freeze approach in kdelibs. > But the consensus is against me on that.  So I have no power to reconsider. > Another approach might be to create a libkjtg and then put in a > hard-dependency

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Allen Winter
On Tuesday 22 November 2011 10:31:57 AM Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 16:10, Allen Winter wrote: > > Pau, > > > > As I understand it, the position of the Release Team is a rock hard, solid > > freeze in kdelibs. > > only bugfixes are allowed, period. > > > > So this request wil

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 16:10, Allen Winter wrote: > Pau, > > As I understand it, the position of the Release Team is a rock hard, solid > freeze in kdelibs. > only bugfixes are allowed, period. > > So this request will necessarily be denied. Hi Allen, while I understand your position I would l

Re: Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Allen Winter
Pau, As I understand it, the position of the Release Team is a rock hard, solid freeze in kdelibs. only bugfixes are allowed, period. So this request will necessarily be denied. On Tuesday 22 November 2011 5:15:41 AM Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From:

Fwd: Requesting freeze exception for JtG

2011-11-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
-- Forwarded message -- From: Pau Garcia i Quiles Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:51 AM Subject: Requesting freeze exception for JtG To: kde-core-de...@kde.org Cc: Cornelius Schumacher , Lydia Pintscher , Claudia Rauch , Frank Karlitschek , "Discuss KDE e.V. work done at sprints" H