Release Schedule for LTS (was: Fwd: Plasma BOF Notes)
Hi!
JFYI.
Thanks,
Martin
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Betreff: Plasma BOF Notes
Datum: Dienstag, 13. September 2016, 11:24:38 CEST
Von: David Edmundson <david@davidedmundson.co.uk>
An: Plasma <plasma-devel@kde.org>
Release Schedule for LTS:
- start off as normal (as in the wiki)
- then release individual packages as needed on an ad-hoc basis.
- new LTS every 18 months when the previous one ends
LTS and frameworks:
- Officially we encourage people to use latest frameworks, but:
- 5.26 can get backports for security and major fixes for the duration.
- Will be done by David F by cherry-picking from master and creating new
tags. There will be no visible branch.
Normal Plasma releases:
- There was a proposal to change our 3 months schedule, to 6/1/4/whatever
- Summary: There are valid merits to both longer and shorter, but neither
wins. Lets just leave it.
Speeding up packages:
- We should start using the frameworks style keywords in commit logs so
we can automate the release anouncements more. Especially the bug fix
releases.
KHotkeys:
- to be binned for 5.9
- we need to fix kmenuedit
- we need to move spectacle / other defaults to the new shortcuts KCM
- custom shortcuts for custom scripts now involve the user creating a
.desktop file by hand, we consider that fine.
- kconf update script to move existing scripts to shortcuts KCM or kwin
Martinscripts if it's on window activation. Marco and G are volunteering
to that respectively
Wayland:
Martin - gave a summary of all the things
- SDDM in wayland is an important thing to do
- plan is to launch kwin_wayland round the greeter
- will need security locked down in kwin
- will need to be in a config as it's shared
- detect if it fails and restart with X if needed
- we will then know if wayland works before we launch the real session
- Plan to make Neon support wayland when that SDDM thing is in
Other people led some other more specific topics, can those people write
them up please.
Etherpad:
https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-2k16-plasma-bof-topics
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Martin
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