> On Feb 1, 2016, at 15:31, Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Monday 01 February 2016 13:04:37 Sebastian Kügler wrote: >> >> I'm not against automated testing at all, I just think it doesn't work at >> the highest level and bears pitfalls of distros gaming the system, or >> people actually care more about the number of points they get than the >> actual user experience. > > I think we have to readjust the perspective here a bit. I really appreciate > Thomas' initiative because there definitely could be better collaboration > between distributions and KDE. We have the common goal to get our software to > users in the best possible shape. We shouldn't see that as a gaming, blaming, > or judging, but we should see this as an opportunity to work together in a > better way. How this is then expressed to the public is a second thought, and > should be decided together with the distributions. > > So defining and discussing criteria which make up a good experience, listing > and communicating requirements, talking to each other about what is missing, > what needs to be fixed, and where it should be fixed without playing upstream- > downstream-ping-pong, sharing and possibly aligning roadmaps, all these > things > and more could happen through the distribution outreach program. This would > be > really wonderful. > > In essence I think this is about better communication between KDE and > distributions, so that we can productively work on what needs to be fixed, > avoid misunderstandings, and keep a common momentum.
Here is an idea that shouldn't be novel but I have yet to see mentioned. If you see a distro doesn't package KDE software correctly, doesn't integrate with the system, doesn't provide a good user experience for whatever reason... file a bug on the distro's bug tracker. Instead of putting the distro on a user-facing "they don't do things good enough" list. Would we like distros to make a user-facing list of "software that works best" and doesn't include Plasma, in order to "incentivize" us to make changes they want? -- Nicolás _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
