Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (87 mails)

[Dirk Mueller <dmueller@xxxxxxx>]

        On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Ben Kevan wrote:

> if I agree. The "Factory" will have the SVN builds (not only the stable
> releases of KDE) of the KDE version that will be released for the next
> version (ie 11.1).

it will contain whatever we want to have in 11.1. As this comes from a stable 
KDE branch, the amount of breakages you expect there should be minimal. Also, 
it does not contain SVN builds like you're assuming - those are in the 
UNSTABLE repository. Now, if you're really concerned about stability, then 
you're invited to use the STABLE repository, which does not change after an 
openSUSE release anymore except for bugfixes. 

Please read the wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Repositories and ask 
questions if something is not clear after that. 

> Prior to 11.0 the KDE BuildService was just that.. KDE releases, but now
> they are more inline with openSUSE releases, which is the opposite of all
> other repositories.

Not really. This is a minimal change in semantics that you'll see everywhere 
else as well. It is for example also implemented in the same way for GNOME, 
and it will be adopted by many other subprojects. 

Now, the reason for the change is that it allows others to easily contribute 
to our packages and to take a look at what we're going to ship for the next 
release. With the buildservice, everyone can branch off a package, fix it, and 
submit it back to us with minimum amount of work, so participation is really 
easy. On the other side putting that in an extra repository allows users to 
update to the Factory version just for one subsystem (for example KDE, kernel, 
X11), without risking the stability of the rest. 

Greetings,
Dirk

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