KMyMoney 5.0

[Pino Toscano]

(Apologies if it arrives twice)

In data giovedì 4 ottobre 2018 00:34:04 CEST, Sandro Knauß ha scritto:
> KMyMoney 4.8.1.1 was thrown out of testing for a long time now.

September 15th, which makes it not even a month...

> KMyMoney 
> 5.0.1 was uploaded to experimental for half a year. Me personally used 
> KMyMoney 5.0.1 without any issue. Are there any blockers against uploading it 
> to unstable?

TL;DR: just don't.

1) various upstream bug reports with regressions in 5.0 compared to 4.8
2) commits with fixes like "restore behaviour broken in the porting to
   Qt5/Frameworks"
3) a poor handling of upstream of the "stable" branch: after 5.0.1
   (released a couple of weeks after 5.0.0), it was almost completely
   ignored... until the last month, when upstream released a new stable
   release was needed, and they merged master to 5.0 (yes, including
   new features, heavy refactoring, etc)
4) a very poor handling of releases: releases announced but delayed,
   releases announced only for Windows, in general no mindset about
   "release early, release often", and so on
5) the fact that kmymoney is a financial application that deals also
   with real money (doing bank transations and so on)

This makes it very hard to properly follow what upstream does, and make
sure that it causes no regressions (compared to 4.8.x).

Just a recent example of this: they originally planned to release
kmymoney 5.0.2 ~10 days ago or so [1]; to do that, as I wrote above,
they merged the development git master to the stable 5.0 branch; the
expected result is "broken DB", and release postponed [2].

[1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kmymoney-devel/2018-September/021485.html
[2] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kmymoney-devel/2018-September/021768.html

The current state of kmymoney 5.x is just sad.

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Pino Toscano
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