KDE Microversion Execption, Take 2

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Top posting for fun and profit.

The gist of this is that the KDE community leaders, while unable to sign
on the dotted line that "KDE point-release updates are SRU-compatible
only", have in practice been executing to that standard. Where an update
isn't to that standard, our Kubuntuc ommunity is able to intercept an
update and exercise judgement over it. So Scott AIUI is asking for a
basic thumbs-up to SRU KDE updates together with the option and
accountability for decisions *not* to do so.

+1 from me.

There's every reason to believe that moving to this "general OK with
discretion" is a good way to move the discussion upstream forward to an
SRU-compatible guarantee and concomitant upload-guarantee, which would
be great for Kubuntu and KDE both.

Mark

On 03/11/10 15:13, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Almost a year ago, we brought a proposal for KDE updates to the Tech Board 
> [1].  As part of the discussion from that visit, we were supposed to update 
> our proposed policy and get commitments from upstream about what would go in 
> micro-version updates.  Riddell put together a draft policy [2] which has, for 
> largely social reasons, been difficult to get formally approved.  Regardless of 
> the policy formalities, KDE has been quite reasonable about limiting their 
> post-release updates to bug fixes.
>
> Based on an informal discussion at UDS-N with one tech board member, I've 
> updated our proposal [3].  Please review/approve.  I'll be glad to discuss at 
> the next TB meeting or via email as you prefer.
>
> Scott K
>
> P.S. Please cc me on any replies as I am not subscribed to the list.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/09/December
> [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Minor_Point_Release_Policy/Draft
> [3] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy
>