On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:42 AM Luigi Toscano <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> wrote: > > Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 12:09:27AM +0200, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > >> Can we please discuss what being in KDE Applications is first? > >> > >> You're telling apps they can join KDE Applications if they want, so to you > >> it's just "release as a service". > >> > >> I disagree, to me it's a "we as a community vouch to try to maintain this > >> to the best of our ability/time". > >> > >> So [to me] adding more things to KDE Applications needs at least a vague > >> consensus that it's worth making that kind of promise. > > > > I think KDE should offer services to apps which want to be part of the > > apps bundled release along with making the tars such as recommending > > version number, promo, maybe helping out with packaging for Snaps and > > Flatpaks and Appimage if there's teams happy to do that. > > I think that you are conflating the "help with the release" with the need for > applications to be part of the bundle. > > My dream is an automated server-side tarball generation, in a way that > developers can simply ask to release from a specific tag and don't care about > uploading the file to the right place on the incoming ftp/ssh server. But that > service could exist independently from the bundle.
That would be reasonably straight forward to implement in a Jenkins Pipeline. Only part you wouldn't be able to do is GPG signing using the developers key. > > -- > Luigi Regards, Ben