Re: KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-27 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Am Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2021, 15:51:50 CEST schrieb Sandro Knauß: > Hi, > > in Debian we only can update Debian stable, than this needs to get approved > by the release manages. This is done by filing a diff aganist the old > version in stable. So providing just the patches is fine for Debian,

Re: KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-27 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Am Montag, 25. Oktober 2021, 22:50:22 CEST schrieb Heiko Becker: > On Monday, 25 October 2021 01:57:58 CEST, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > CAN WE HAVE KDE GEAR DO INDIVIDUAL AND VERSIONED HOTFIX RELEASES? > > > > So ideally KDE Gear has an option to do intermediate hotfix releases of > >

Re: KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-27 Thread Sandro Knauß
Hi, in Debian we only can update Debian stable, than this needs to get approved by the release manages. This is done by filing a diff aganist the old version in stable. So providing just the patches is fine for Debian, as the commits normally also explain what they fix. This helps us and the

Re: KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-26 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Am Montag, 25. Oktober 2021, 22:50:22 CEST schrieb Heiko Becker: > On Monday, 25 October 2021 01:57:58 CEST, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > CAN WE HAVE KDE GEAR DO INDIVIDUAL AND VERSIONED HOTFIX RELEASES? > > > > So ideally KDE Gear has an option to do intermediate hotfix releases of > >

Re: KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-26 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2021, 01:00:23 CEST schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > El dilluns, 25 d’octubre de 2021, a les 1:57:58 (CEST), Friedrich W. H. Kossebau va escriure: > > E.g. how can users & developers later know in > > a consistent way if an instance of the software really has the hotfix, or >

Re: KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-26 Thread Heiko Becker
On Tuesday, 26 October 2021 01:00:23 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: But I would like to say: * We've seem to be doing quite well without needing this for "almost decades" * I fear that the possibility of "endless re-rolls" may make people test/review code less because "we can always re-roll

Re: KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-25 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dilluns, 25 d’octubre de 2021, a les 1:57:58 (CEST), Friedrich W. H. Kossebau va escriure: > Hi, > > (distributions as CC: as they are stakeholders on the matter) > > while discussing a potential move to KDE Gear (or rather, the great automatic > Release service part), the question came up

Re: KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-25 Thread Heiko Becker
On Monday, 25 October 2021 01:57:58 CEST, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: CAN WE HAVE KDE GEAR DO INDIVIDUAL AND VERSIONED HOTFIX RELEASES? So ideally KDE Gear has an option to do intermediate hotfix releases of individual software as well, with proper identifier in the version. Two

KDE Gear and hotfix releases, how to see whether a user has the hotfix?

2021-10-24 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Hi, (distributions as CC: as they are stakeholders on the matter) while discussing a potential move to KDE Gear (or rather, the great automatic Release service part), the question came up how cases of urgent fixes are handled, especially when it comes to identifying products at users whether