{"id":89,"date":"2008-10-16T23:15:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T22:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-10-16T23:15:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T22:15:26","slug":"is-something-wrong-with-kde-patch-backport-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Is something wrong with KDE patch backport policies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or <strong>Is distro&#8217;s backporting of features a good thing<\/strong> or <strong>Distro A is much better than Distro B because of the cool features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So. Advantages when backporting features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your distro is part of the &#8220;cool ones&#8221; amongst the users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disadvantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upstreams dislike you because the code might be a weird mix that they never wanted to release, but they still get the bug reports<\/li>\n<li>Error prone work for distros<\/li>\n<li>Issues with new untranslated strings<\/li>\n<li>More maintainance work for distributers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In KDE4, several distros backports loads of features (Plasma panel autohide, plasma tooltips, kwin &#8220;cube&#8221; effect and other things).<br \/>\nSeveral distros include mandriva, suse, kubuntu and fedora.<\/p>\n<p>So should we in Debian follow the other distros?  Should KDE change policies? Should distros stop backporting features? Something else? Sharing the patches among the distributions is of course easy.<\/p>\n<p>(Please note: I&#8217;m only talking about <em>features<\/em>, not <em>bugfixes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or Is distro&#8217;s backporting of features a good thing or Distro A is much better than Distro B because of the cool features So. Advantages when backporting features Your distro is part of the &#8220;cool ones&#8221; amongst the users Disadvantages: Upstreams dislike you because the code might be a weird mix that they never wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-english","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}