On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Luca Beltrame <[email protected]> wrote: > Il Sat, 30 Jan 2016 14:39:11 +0100, Thomas Pfeiffer ha scritto: > >> The intention is not to blame any distribution for anything. The goal is >> to give users a way to identify distributions which fulfill the >> requirements for our software to run optimally. > > I understood that, but my fear is that the message will be misinterpreted, > although I do not assume bad faith on any part. > >> can't expect KDE software to work perfectly on that distribution, and >> they should not blame us for it. > > It happens also the other way: there's quite a number of bugs filed at the > distributions' trackers that are upstream problem. Again, this is not an > accusation or "you too!" mention, just to say that this problem is IMO, > inevitable, and at best it can be minimized (that's why I think the > outreach idea is important). > >> There should be a communication channel for distributions to notify us >> "Hey, we know we currently don't meet the dependency requirements > > The other problem is that distro people are for the major part all > volounteers, so I guess that between packaging and writing mails, they > prefer packaging. ;) But I guess the kde-distro-packagers ML could be used > for this, somehow? > >> (unless it's about a critical security vulnerability, but distributions >> have special processes to get those fixed asap anyway, don't they?) > > Yes, they do. Sometimes a prompt release is not warranted to watch out for > regressions, and distros may hop to .x versions (and that is why, I think, > Plasma people adopted a staggered minor release model). > >> Would a "Runs KDE software optimally" kind of badge not be perceived as >> an endorsement? > > Personally not, but I'd like other people from distributions to chime in.
How about coming up with a set of scripts that give score to an installation? This way we can say "OpenSuse scored X points/K stars in our compatibility test" and yet we have some metrics to help improve integration. Aleix _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
