On 2/15/21 6:01 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
Here at KDE we've always struggled a bit with branding and the
announcement of formats for the bunch of releases that was originally
"KDE" then "KDE SC" then "KDE Applications" and at Akademy 2019 we
decided to debrand it and make it a release service with lots of
different stuff in it. We had monthly update announcements that
included those releases on the months when they happened and otherwise
included everything else released over the past month. But the format
doesn't seem to have caught on by various metrics. So the promo group
had some chat about different formats you can read at
https://phabricator.kde.org/T14091 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T14091>
Currently the plan is to reband it probably with the name KDE Gear.
That gets released every 4 months (same as currently) with a big
announcement for it and everything in it. It's still a collection of
apps and supporting libraries with no connection to each other except
they happen to be KDE projects which don't want to do their own release
work. Then every 4 months on the months between times we have an update
article highlighting all the other stuff that has been released by KDE.
The bugfix releases for KDE Gear happen monthly as currently and only
have a minimal announcement.
We hope this format will get some more traction with engagement from
outside press and social media buzz. Any comments welcome.
+1, I think this makes sense. I like "KDE Gear". It's short and sweet
and suggestive, but not descriptive.
Nate
