Le 2021-02-20 à 10:38, Luigi Toscano a écrit :
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.
Thank you for the quick reply Luigi
The "release service" in question can be obtained from
https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/
https://community.kde.org/Policies/Application_Lifecycle#Releasing
describes it:
Includes a range of libraries, applications and developer tools
I understand from this new information that the "bunch of releases"
under discussion do *not* correspond to what was previously called "KDE
Applications" (although it may *include* KDE Applications).
Do we have a better description of "release service"? If not, I suppose
now would be a good time to define it, clarifying why a given library,
application or tool would be included or excluded from that "range".
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.
Right; if it's not just applications, evoking applications is not as
important. However, if it largely consists of applications, I suppose it
remains non-ideal for the branding to primarily evoke internals.
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Philippe Cloutier
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