Fwd: Release Schedule for LTS (was: Fwd: Plasma BOF Notes)

[Simon Quigley]

Passing on things some more. :P


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From: Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de>
Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:47 AM
Subject: Release Schedule for LTS (was: Fwd: Plasma BOF Notes)
To: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org>


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 at davidedmundson.co.uk>
An: Plasma <plasma-devel at 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