I'm writing at the request of the sysadmins, who would like to hear from the community about distributions' use of KDE infra.
I'm part of the Kubuntu community and will use it as the example I know best. Kubuntu has some KDE wiki pages, found at https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu - for which we are very grateful. Ubuntu has a wiki we used to use, but between the awfulness of MoinMoin and the spam attacks on it, we love being at home at the KDE wikis. For some time we've been using notes.kde.org as well, and are planning how to use share.kde.org now that notes is closing down. We'll need to set up a Kubuntu group so that all Kubuntu team members who need access can actually access the shares. One of the advantages of using KDE infra over piratepad or so, is that we can add a password if necessary, and share among other KDE packagers if necessary. We are also interested in having a Phab instance for Kubuntu mostly for the todo/workboard. Right now, we're using Trello, but would prefer to use Free software if possible. And the beauty of Phabricator is that we can keep more of our "stuff" in one place. For instance, it includes a wiki as well, which we might use for packaging documentation. Very slick to have all our packaging stuff in one place. However, the sysadmins would like the KDE community support for this, since it could be seen as a "slippery slope." In addition, Ben Cooksley said, "we'll need to come up with some guidelines surrounding what distributions can ask us for, given the Manifesto / KDE Project rules. I would love to see more KDE distros getting cozy with the KDE community because I don't like to see fighting between packagers and developers, and communication is key. Our Manifesto [1] says: Being part of the international KDE community conveys certain benefits: ....Make use of KDE infrastructure for project hosting. I've noticed that some KDE projects do not use KDE infra, such as bugzilla, websites, and even mail lists. I thought the rule was that all KDE projects would move to KDE infra, so this surprised me. On the other hand, groups which are associated with the community but will never be "KDE projects" such as KDE distros, are not mentioned in the Manifesto. We do already host the KDE Packagers list [2], and Distributions list [3] which supports the Distribution Outreach Program [4]. What do you say? Obviously we want to support KDE distributions. Where do we draw the line? Valorie 1. https://manifesto.kde.org/benefits.html 2. https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-distro-packagers 3. https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions 4. https://dot.kde.org/2016/03/03/announcing-kde-communitys-distribution-outreach-program -- http://about.me/valoriez
