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Albert Astals Cid | 7 Feb 23:03
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4.9 Release schedule

Hi guys, are we releasing 4.9?

Last i heard the Frameworks guys were aiming at some kind of release around 
Akademy time (which is kind of the same time we'd release 4.9 in a 6 months 
cycle). Obviously this means that either:
 a) We release 4.9 not using frameworks at all (and using kdelibs 4.8 renamed 
to 4.9 like we did this time)
 b) We wait until frameworks is out

I'm leaning towards a) since b) might end up meaning an undefinite delay.

Opinions?

Albert
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Martin Gräßlin | 8 Feb 06:25
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Re: 4.9 Release schedule

On Tuesday 07 February 2012 23:03:57 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi guys, are we releasing 4.9?
> 
> Last i heard the Frameworks guys were aiming at some kind of release around
> Akademy time (which is kind of the same time we'd release 4.9 in a 6 months
> cycle). Obviously this means that either:
>  a) We release 4.9 not using frameworks at all (and using kdelibs 4.8
> renamed to 4.9 like we did this time)
>  b) We wait until frameworks is out
> 
> I'm leaning towards a) since b) might end up meaning an undefinite delay.
My understanding of the whole frameworks development was that it does not 
disrupt the application development. Given that it has to be a) IMHO and that 
is also what I would personally prefer (as I doubt that we (kwin) can switch 
to Qt 5 without quite some work going into the porting).

Cheers
Martin
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Kevin Ottens | 8 Feb 08:06
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Re: 4.9 Release schedule

On Tuesday 07 February 2012 23:03:57 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi guys, are we releasing 4.9?
> 
> Last i heard the Frameworks guys were aiming at some kind of release around
> Akademy time (which is kind of the same time we'd release 4.9 in a 6 months
> cycle). Obviously this means that either:
>  a) We release 4.9 not using frameworks at all (and using kdelibs 4.8
> renamed to 4.9 like we did this time)
>  b) We wait until frameworks is out
> 
> I'm leaning towards a) since b) might end up meaning an undefinite delay.
> 
> Opinions?

Definitely go for (a), if we do a release of Frameworks around Akademy that 
will be a technology preview to test the water and detect what might be 
missing. You'd still need to start porting apps to Qt5 and KF5 itself after 
that, etc. Definitely not 4.9 material IMO.

Regards.
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Allen Winter | 8 Feb 14:48
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Re: 4.9 Release schedule

On Tuesday 07 February 2012 5:03:57 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi guys, are we releasing 4.9?
> 
> Last i heard the Frameworks guys were aiming at some kind of release around 
> Akademy time (which is kind of the same time we'd release 4.9 in a 6 months 
> cycle). Obviously this means that either:
>  a) We release 4.9 not using frameworks at all (and using kdelibs 4.8 renamed 
> to 4.9 like we did this time)
>  b) We wait until frameworks is out
> 

a) absolutely yes
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Will Stephenson | 14 Feb 10:45
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Re: 4.9 Release schedule

On Tuesday 07 February 2012 23:03:57 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi guys, are we releasing 4.9?
> 
> Last i heard the Frameworks guys were aiming at some kind of release around
> Akademy time (which is kind of the same time we'd release 4.9 in a 6 months
> cycle). Obviously this means that either:
>  a) We release 4.9 not using frameworks at all (and using kdelibs 4.8
> renamed to 4.9 like we did this time)
>  b) We wait until frameworks is out
> 
> I'm leaning towards a) since b) might end up meaning an undefinite delay.
> 
> Opinions?

Strongly for a) (and 4.10, ...) as it lets us show we've learned from 4.0 and 
keep most users on 4.x until 5.x is really ready for them.  See Libreoffice's 
explicit definition of who .0 releases are for here: 
http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/07/01/libreoffice-3-4-1-provides-
stable-new-features-for-every-user/ .

Will
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