Plasma 5.16 Kickoff Meeting Notes

Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]>
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Plasma 5.16 Kickoff

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* 5.15 review

No fires
Good media coverage
Good meta testing
New contributors
Everything is awesome

* 5.16 schedule
agreed

* 5.16 deps
Qt 5.12

* LTS
Ubuntu LTS feature freeze Feb 2020
openSuSE may want later this year
Plasma 5.8 is EOL
Plasma 5.12 gets 6 monthly releases
No need for another Plasma LTS yet

* KCM Git module location
Leave it up to the maintainer of the new module/kcm, unless the plasma
desktop maintainer (marco) wants to fight it out in the thunderdome

* 5.16 todo items
ToDo items were created and marked 5.16

https://phabricator.kde.org/T10488

It was reminded that we should care about touch and tablet Uis
https://phabricator.kde.org/T9217

* Plasma Sprint
Slimbook has invited us
Apol to find out if they have any dates they prefer and set up doodle
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