Hi, 2014-03-09 7:33 GMT+01:00 Ian Wadham: > Hi Kevin and Frank, > > On 08/03/2014, at 11:02 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: >> On Saturday, 2014-03-08, 21:47:07, Ian Wadham wrote: >>> On 08/03/2014, at 6:43 PM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: >>>> 2014-03-08 4:38 GMT+01:00 Ian Wadham: >>>>> While we are on the topic of testing, how much testing is done of >>>>> KDE's cross-platform and cross-desktop implementations? >>>> >>>> Unless the people who prepare the Mac packages test them, the only >>>> testing is done by you and by other users, >>> >>> So what I am hearing, in answer to my question, is "No testing by the KDE >>> development team". >> >> I think this would only be the case if the two groups of people, KDE >> Developers and KDE-on-Mac packagers/users, were non-overlapping sets. > > I think they probably are non-overlapping sets. There *is* a KDE Mac > mailing list, but I receive only a few posts per year from it, as compared > with several a day from Macports.
This might indicate that the "KDE on Mac" group (like many other KDE projects) has too few contributors, and needs help from Mac users who care about KDE software. >>> If KDE developers cannot or will not test a release on some version of >>> Apple hardware and OS X, what right do they have to offer it as a >>> cross-platform and cross-desktop system? >> >> Do you mean all KDE developers or some? As I wrote above, I would be >> surprised >> if none of the packager nor users of KDE applications on Mac are KDE >> developers. >> >> But "all" doesn't seem realistic either. > > I guess I meant KDE as a group that releases software. Clearly some of > that software is intended to be useable on Apple OS X and MS Windows > because it contains conditional code for those environments. > > In that sense, I would say the KDE group is "offering" KDE software on Apple > OS X and MS Windows, just as they are offering it on Linux, so they ought > to organise some basic functional testing in conjunction with each new > release. I do not know which group of KDE guys should do it. Since KDE on Mac seems to need help, and you are a Mac user who cares about the KDE user experience, and you know other Mac users who are interested in KDE, you look like the perfect organizer for a "Test KDE sotware on Mac" group to me! Cheers, Frank >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
