On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Martin Schlander
Onsdag den 27. juli 2016 17:00:11 skrev Luca Beltrame: Wouldn't including Plasma 5.8 to begin with reduce the workload? Compared to shipping 5.7 and then do a semi-major upgrade later?
We are all on the same page with regards to Plasma. But Plasma is just the desktop and nothing else. Applications like kate, kmail, kontact, okular, marble, etc are not included in Plasma, but are released independently with KDE Application releases. These are the components that Luca was indicating.
And also doesn't Plasma 5.8 being LTS remove the need for the openSUSE team to backport (Plasma) patches? I thought that was more or less the whole idea of the LTS. Of course I don't really know how much work goes into shipping the Plasma bugfix releases.
As stated before, Plasma LTS release will have a dependency on a particular Frameworks release, so this we could see as one set. My expectation is that we would have regular updates for Plasma 5.8 in the same sense as that we had for kdebase-workspace. However Frameworks itself does not have an LTS release, so bugfixes will only be in a newer version. Of course the indication is that Frameworks will remain API/ABI stable and backwards compatible, but we have never had that situation. So if we want to keep Frameworks on the starting release, we would need to start backporting fixes. For KDE Applications this situation is even worse as that here in most cases a newer Frameworks and newer Plasma version is required with every update. So if we select the KDE Applications 16.08 as the main version (which would be available version at that time), then we would need to accept the given functionality provided (including the KF5 porting part). At least based on what Ludwig is indicating. As of this moment this could mean that we have to accept that maybe a number of bugs can never be fixed as that the fixes can not be backported (either due to functionality changes or due to available manpower). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org