Il giorno Sat, 14 Jan 2017 14:20:15 +0100 Adriaan de Groot <gr...@kde.org> ha scritto:
[renamed the discussion so that it drifts away from Valorie's request onto something else, and doesn't distract from her question] > I'm having a terrible time understanding the nature of the line in > the sand you'd like to draw. What does the Venn diagram look like to The line would be: distros (*any* distro) on the side, KDE on the other. The reasoning is non technical, as I said, mainly because even if distros are Free Software, their goals and objectives may not always fit within KDE. On the other hand (I *need* to point this out), some distros have definite issues with their infrastructure for handling KDE software (Fedora and Kubuntu, for different reasons). > you? Frankly I'd rather not have FreeBSD be "the special case" if it > comes to that. Luigi in the follow up mail explained better what I meant. > Then there's KDE Argon, Xenon and others .. different base distro's, Argon and Krypton are not KDE projects, they're openSUSE community things, they do not use KDE infrastructure at all (except downloading stuff from KDE git). > efforts -- then I still don't see how that translates to "KDE doesn't > help downstream in any way", which is kind of how I interpret your "Help" perhaps is a bit too vague. I'm a downstream (openSUSE) as well as an upstream: I wear both hats. I'm *all* for KDE helping downstreams, in fact I think that with things like distribution outreach and other people actively seeking distro input KDE is helping a lot more than before. What I object to is having downstreams use KDE infrastructure (including workboards and Phab) for distro-specific things (even if limited to KDE packaging). Personally I try to keep things entirely separate. That said, if the majority of the community wants to do that anyway, it's not like I'll commit suicide tomorrow. ;) -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team GPG key ID: A29D259B
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