Hi everyone, now with neon having been announced, and some members of some distributions fearing that their distribution might become a "second-class citizen" for KDE software due to the less direct communication with KDE, I think that it's more important than ever to publicly reach out to all distros shipping our software.
This thread has seen some skepticism about some parts of my original idea, but mostly great suggestions for how to proceed. I've tried to analyze the brainstorming results and identify what most people contributing to the discussion seemed to agree on. Here is how I'd suggest to proceed: - Form a team to organize the Distribution Outreach Program and act as point of contact for the distributions - Define what would be the main communication channel (should we just use kde-distro-packagers or do we need a new mailing list, forum or whatever?) - Publicly announce (on all channels where we might reach distributions) the program, including how to reach us - Collect from our maintainers what a distribution should to provide in order to make their software work best on it (where do we reach everyone?) and publish that (ideally on our wiki once that is editable again) This is all I'd do for now. I'd suggest to first see how much simply increasing communication and publishing our requirements will take us. We can decide whether we want/need badges or scripted testing later. Does that make sense to you guys? And most importantly: Who'd be up for joining the program team? Cheers, Thomas _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community