On 1/2/24 20:04, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
My opinion is that KDE project maintainers should aspire to get the
projects into the hands of users in a way which makes it a useful tool
for the user. That means ensuring the projects are packaged and
distributed and updated. That's a big ask of course especially from
volunteers but it would be the same of self hosted open source
projects on Github or commercial proprietary projects, the difference
is we have a community process where if you aren't sure how to achieve
something there is probably other people who can help out. When I
first took over Umbrello 20 years ago I was surprised that as well as
learning C++ and Qt I'd also need to know some artwork and how to make
it translatable and follow UI design. Actually making it available to
users through app stores is another ask for sure but it's why I'd like
that integrated into processes like the KDE Gear release service so
projects can offload some of the work. There seems to be minimal
interest in this though which I worry keeps KDE projects back.
Jonathan
Also if you'd like your app build as a Flatpak in CI or on Flathub
please don't hesitate to ping us in the Matrix channel: #flatpak:kde.org
