On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I agree. Especially since the Bryan Lunduke article propagated not just misinformation, but generated quite a bit of hostility. And some of the comments were even seen as "friendly fire" against KDE packaging teams by other KDE folks. This is quite bad. > 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 I think this is an excellent way to move forward, and I will help in any way I can. Valorie _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
