Plasma 5

Hi kde-promo,

Within the Plasma team, many of us would like to go forward using version 5 
for our upcoming release ("Plasma 5"). We'd like to propose it to be taken 
forward. (The version "in the code" is already at 5, anyway.)

Here's a quick run-down of the reasons why we think it's better than 2014.6, 
or <year>.<month of release>:

- It communicates continuity: Plasma Next really is the continuation of 15+  
years of doing a desktop. It has our DNA all over it, and it's not a 
disconnected "today's thing". Especially to our existing userbase, and those 
just outside of it (other people known to Free desktops), this has a real 
meaning. It's something people love, and sometimes hate, and it's not a 
completely new thing. This is well in line with what we've been talking about 
all along for Plasma Next.

- It's trusted and proven: it works and will cause no problems with packaging, 
and comparing version number

- It solves a bunch of technical inconsistencies (plasmapkg2 vs kcmshell5 -- 
why has one the 2 appended, the other 5?), library sonames are 5 as well.

- It indicates (like we did traditionally) that this is the 5th major version, 
building on a new Qt5, and Frameworks 5, we get to re-use that kind of 
consistency.

Note that it's not a unanimous decision, but a "this is what /most/ of the 
involved people think is a good idea". Further feedback of course welcome.

It looks like we'll delay the release for 1 month, as Frameworks 5.0 has seen 
the same kind of delay and we wouldn't like releasing Plasma 5.0 on top of a 
Frameworks beta. A revised schedule will likely appear in the coming days. 
More on release preps will follow in the coming weeks, so we can make a nice 
splash around it.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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