Philippe Cloutier ha scritto: > Hi Jonathan, > > Le 2021-02-15 à 09:49, Christoph Cullmann a écrit : >> On 2021-02-15 15:36, Nate Graham wrote: >>> 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. >> >> +1, too > > > If I understand correctly, this is discussing announcements like > https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2021-02-apps-update/ > > But what exactly are we trying to name here? A bundle which contains all KDE > applications as the ticket indicates?
The thing called "release service", i.e. a set of artifacts (applications, libraries, even data, whose release process has been delegated to the "release service" team and happens at the same time. > In any case, "KDE Gear" sure is short and makes some sense if we consider it > related to Extragear, but for those who don't know KDE's history, I am > skeptical that gears are a good way to evoke applications. It doesn't need to evoke applications, the idea is to have a brand. -- Luigi
