On Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2016 10:46:26 CET Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > So we're going to shame them into complying by leaving them out of a list? > They'll pay attention to our wiki more than to their policies? Several > people in this thread mentioned distro policies as a reason why this won't > work, in fact.
Again: This is not about shaming anybody. I, personally, have two goals: First (and foremost): I want to improve the communication with distributions and try to help them make our software shine on their platforms. I have already seen some quite interesting and likely useful ideas coming up in this thread that might help with this goal. I really see something useful coming out of this collective brainstorming. Second, I want to give users who are deciding which distribution to use some further information. How well our software works on a distro is just one of any number of criteria which users may employ in their decision-making. I assume that the aforementioned distro policies do exist for a reason, and hopefully that reason is in some way (directly or indirectly) relevant to users (otherwise it would mean that the distribution does not care about users, which would make it a bad decision for any user). I don't want so shame distributions, but if their policies negatively affect their user's experience with our software, I want users to know that (instead of thinking it's our fault). This then allows users to make an informed decision about whether their experience with KDE software or the purpose of the distro policies that conflict with that is more important to them. It's really all about information and transparency. I, as a user, want to know the advantages and disadvantages which different distributions have for me. As a home user, getting the latest and greatest from KDE is very important to me, so I choose a distribution that delivers that. If I had to choose a distribution for an organization with hundreds or thousands of installations, things like stability, maintainability and support of and for the distribution in general would be much more important for me, and therefore I'd very likely make a different choice for that. I'm a bit disappointed that my idea is construed as "KDE vs. distributions" by some people in this thread. It really isn't, which is why I am happy about all people that welcome my general idea even "with their distributor hat on". Cheers, Thomas _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
