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[Mark Linimon]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 03:23:08PM +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> KDE Frameworks releases monthly (for the past 63 months), Plasma
> quarterly and Applications semi-anually.

OK.  I was not aware of that.  I have been buried far too deep in the
details of individual errorlogs to notice.  That kind of obviates my
post.

I guess I am remembering from ~6 months ago when we were hitting new
problems left and right.  Piotr tells me that that has setttled down.

> Putting in a -devel version could slow the Frameworks releases to the
> rate of Plasma releases, but [...] I don't think that's really doable
> from a port-maintainer perspective.

OK, fair enough.

> Piotr Kubaj is all over the tree and has been helpful in our ports

I know :-)  I'm one of his mentors.  I have been testing all of his
submitted patches -- even since before he even got a ports bit.

> but I think he has access to real hardware.

The FreeBSD Foundation helped him get a Talos system.  As well, Talos
has given him remote access to one of their systems.

I myself have a Talos, albeit the "little brother" to the more capable
machines.  As well, I have access to two P8s hosted at OSU that IBM has
loaned to us.  That's where I do most of my patch testing.  So, yes,
we have hardware.

> If there's a simple "press play" thing I can do to prevent issues
> reaching you

Well I am willing to use my Blackbird here as a beta QA tester.  (In
general I use it as a backup to all the above, more powerful, machines,
and in headless mode.  OTOH I just brought it back up yesterday with
the latest xfce4 and it seems to work as expected.)  If you are interested,
please contact me privately.

I have not investigated any of the "press play" solutions yet.  I am
simply too buried.

> I expect then that it'd be a week's compile on my local workstation)

I'm not sure exactly how long it would take on this machine.  I think it
would be somewhat less than that.  So far I have merely used the official
FreeBSD.org packages.

In my definse of my initial post, I *will* say that we (FreeBSD.org)
doesn't have a package for the meta-package itself (at least on -CURRENT).
Various other things have kept it from building for most of this year, but
now we are back down to simply qt5-webengine.  I think Piotr is working
on that.  I have so many patches that I have tried over the course of the
last 12 months that I always have to go back to my notes to check.

mcl