Using git the proper way for correct release changelogs

If you look at kdenlive's changelog for KDE Applications 15.08 and for KDE Applications 15.04.3 you'll see that "Fix autosave not working when opening project file from command line or click in file browser" shows up in both.

On the other hand if you have a look at gwenview, in 15.04.3 it shows "Make saving thumbnails work again" while it's not part of 15.08.

Does that mean that this bug got lost?

No, gwenview is actually the correct thing, we should not mention a bug again for 15.08 if it was released in 15.04.3, since well it's been released already :D

So why does kdenlive, marble and others show commits in the two places?

Because their developers are not doing the proper git-thing of commiting to the oldest supported branch and then merging up to master, so for git it's two different commits instead of the same (in case of the kdenlive commit in question it'd be https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdenlive.git&a=commit&h=cc55a9cea5c2f029744f8aba79a362fd302ec0bb and https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdenlive.git&a=commit&h=28b3cc7b5141fcc2fed84433b9fe9851c35b7e08).

Commiting the fix to the oldest supported branch and then merging up has lots of other benefits (like making sure you never forget a fix in master), but maybe this is the one that finally convinces more devs to switch to it, nicer changelogs ;)

KDE Workspaces 4.11 End of Life this August

Back in August 2013 we promised to do Long Term Support for kde-workspace for 2 years.

This means this August is the last release for kde-workspace (coming with KDE Applications 15.08.0).

Of course, we can extend the releases if anyone has a strong reason.

If you do, head to the release-team mailing list!

rsibreak port to KF5 started!

I just started the port of rsibreak to KF5.

Contributions at http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=rsibreak.git

Akademy 2015 and Akademy-es 2015 recap

I'm back home after more than a week of talks and hacking in the beautiful city of A Coruña.

There I attended Akademy, the international conference of the KDE Community, and Akademy-es, it's Spanish counterpart.

First off I'd like to thank the local organization, GPUL, that as always has done an amazing job in hosting us, repeating the success of Guademy, Akademy-es 2008, KDE-EDu sprint, etc.

Also kudos to the Scottish-Kenny duo, top notch organizing work as always.

Finally thanks to the both Akademy and Akademy-es sponsors. Specially Qindel, that sponsored us for the first time, hope we can continue the relationship in the future.

The talks this year were specially interesting, I attended some good BoFs on releasing and translation infrastructure, hopefully some improvements coming your way soon :)

Of course not everything is perfect and my biggest pain point this year was that we did not have as much people in Akademy-es as we expected. Akademy-es happened the 2 days before Akademy and this meant that lots of local people from the organization team were helping set up the place instead of attending the talks; also on Friday some of us (I count at least 8) were attending the KDE e.V. General Assembly so couldn't attend Akademy-es either. Definitely something to think about and improve next time Akademy and Akademy-es happen at the same place.

But all in all pretty positive experience as always, nice to meet so many KDE people :)