#5917 closed enhancement (overcomebyevents)
kactivities (placeholder)
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | hold |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
This package has not shown up in kde since 4.13.3, but it certainly is used by several packages in the 4.14.x series.
Check for new version at each new KDE release.
Change History (11)
comment:1 by , 9 years ago
comment:2 by , 9 years ago
What is your definition of EOL? I can understand not doing new versions, but I would think they would be doing bug fixes for a while.
comment:3 by , 9 years ago
What they wanted to release as a bugfix release they did it via Applications 14.12 release (and will possibly do via 15.04 one - next applications release). The rest is pretty much dead. The git repositories for kdelibs4 and kde-workspace4 seem to be still active, but last releases were 4.14.3 and 4.11.14 respectively and I haven't heard of any plans of future release for such components.
kactivities KDE4 branch didn't see much activity either.
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kactivities.git&a=shortlog&h=3a260b5968c0e098c164105b3b8f7299665ae7bd
The KDE team is focused on the Qt5 and KDE Frameworks porting at the moment. I'm not familiar of the KDE3 situation, but didn't KDE3 stop getting (official) updates as soon as KDE 4 was released?
comment:4 by , 9 years ago
KDE3 stayed around for quite a while after KDE 4.0 was released. It wasn't really in good shape until about KDE 4.4. That said, I don't know if KDE3 continued to be updated or not, but it was pretty stable.
Do you have any insight into numbering of the new releases. Is 14.12 December of 2014? Are they creating a Y2.1K problem. :)
How often do they plan releases?
My current thought is to keep KDE4 for BLFS-7.7 and then consider transition to KF5 and friends.
comment:5 by , 9 years ago
Well, as far as I know KDE3 is still around (Trinity fork), but that doesn't answer the original question (which you said you don't know answer to).
I was simply curious if KDE3 was supported (read: maintaned and released bugfix updates) by the KDE developers (not as a 3rd party fork) after 4.0 release. I read somewhere that one of the developers said that they "don't want to repeat the situation with KDE3 -> KDE4 migration, where KDE3 was left unmaintained while KDE4 wasn't ready at the time. KDE 4.14.3 is rock solid, was released recently (when the Plasma 5.1 was already around!)
As for the application versioning, yes - you are right. 14.12 corresponds to the December 2014. For now, their schedule contains information about applications 14.12 and 15.04 (the next release). It appears that they want to sync their timeline with Kubuntu, on which many of the KDE devs work.
https://techbase.kde.org/Schedules
You can also find the Release Schedule (now completed) for the last KDE SC 4 release which proves that KDE SC 4 isn't being released anymore as it was.
comment:6 by , 9 years ago
| Milestone: | hold → 7.7 |
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| Owner: | changed from to |
| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:7 by , 9 years ago
| Milestone: | 7.7 → hold |
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I checked for the 14.12.2 release and the latest kactivities is still in http://download.kde.org/stable/4.14.3/src.
Back to hold for the next KDE release.
comment:8 by , 9 years ago
Comment 1 still stands. There won't be any release of this package anymore. KDE 4 is EOL. There is a KDE Frameworks 5 based version of this package, currently at 5.7.0, but incompatible with KDE 4.
comment:9 by , 9 years ago
| Resolution: | → overcomebyevents |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
OK, I'll go ahead and just close this as overcome by events.
There won't be any release of this package anymore, at least not Qt4 based.
KDE 4 is EOL, and kactivitymanagerd from Kactivities-5.x can be used with library from Kactivities-4.x, and the library didn't change at all in some time.