El dilluns, 15 de febrer de 2021, a les 14:01:25 CET, Jonathan Riddell va escriure: > 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 > > Currently the plan is to reband it probably with the name KDE Gear.
Ouch, y'all ended up liking my silly suggestion ^_^ Sorry about that. Anyhow, I'm expecting we're not necessarily have to change stuff like branch names or RELEASE_SERVICE_VERSION_MAJOR cmake variables to adapt to this promo driven change, right? Cheers, Albert > 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. > > Jonathan >
