[mythtv] 0.28 Release Schedule

[Kenni Lund]

2016-01-09 10:32 GMT+01:00 Lawrence Rust <lvr at softsystem.co.uk>:
> On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 08:51 +0000, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 12:30 AM Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:36 PM Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 9 January 2016 at 06:14, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:11 PM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 09:33:21PM +0000, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
>> >>>> > Hi All,
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > As master has been stable for some time, and
>> >>>> > it is now time to start releasing 0.28.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > The release schedule for 0.28 is as follows
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Release Candidate 1 - 11th January
>> >>>> > - Feature Freeze, Translatable String Freeze
>> >>>> > - Further bug fixes allowed
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Release Candidate 2 - 18th January
>> >>>> > - After this date, major, critical and blocker bug fixes only
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Release Candidate 3 - 25th January
>> >>>> > - After this date, critical and blocker bug fixes only
>> >>>> > - Translations to be completed and committed by 31st Jan
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > 0.28 Release - 1st February
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Is anyone able and willing to help test and debug diseqc support?
>> >>>> That's reportedly broken in current 0.28 and I have no way of testing
>> >>>> most of it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> David
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> David Engel
>> >>>> david at istwok.net
>> >>>> _______________________________________________
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>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> We'll do our first push of 0.28 packages to the Ubuntu repos after RC1.
>> >>> --
>> >>> Thomas Mashos
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Thomas,
>> >>
>> >> will 12.04 still be supported on 0.28?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Anthony
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
>> > 12.04 will continue to get the packages in the PPA for 0.28
>> > --
>> > Thomas Mashos
>> >
>>
>> Bah, correction.
>>
>> 12.04 will not get 0.28, as it doesn't have a new enough Qt version.
>
> Thomas,
>
> I have for some time now, and will continue to, build and run master on
> my 12.04 LTS systems with several patches that restore support for Qt
> 4.8.  (I'll probably build a new box for 16.04 LTS and migrate then).
> There's no loss of functionality, although the 'New Image Gallery' has
> minor limitations.  It's possible to support Qt 4.6 (for plain Centos 6)
> with these changes.
>
> Would there be any point in folding the patches into 1 and adding it to
> master - they don't change anything for Qt5 and there's no real long
> term support issue?

Is that really something we want to do? It sounds like a bad tradeoff
to me. 12.04 LTS is EOL in around one year anyway, so now would be a
good time for 12.04 users to start their migration to 14.04 or 16.04.
Re-introducing support for deprecated Qt versions, which also brings
limitations in MythTV functionality and more code complexity, sounds
like the wrong direction.

Anyway, I believe that this decision would be something for the
developer group to decide, as we have already decided to drop the Qt 4
support and have announced this publicly[1].

[1] https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=714

Best regards
Kenni