On 09/03/2014, at 7:16 PM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: > 2014-03-09 7:33 GMT+01:00 Ian Wadham: >> On 08/03/2014, at 11:02 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: >>> On Saturday, 2014-03-08, 21:47:07, Ian Wadham wrote: >>>> On 08/03/2014, at 6:43 PM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: >>>>> 2014-03-08 4:38 GMT+01:00 Ian Wadham: >>>>>> While we are on the topic of testing, how much testing is done of >>>>>> KDE's cross-platform and cross-desktop implementations? >>>>> >>>>> Unless the people who prepare the Mac packages test them, the only >>>>> testing is done by you and by other users, >>>> >>>> So what I am hearing, in answer to my question, is "No testing by the KDE >>>> development team". >>> >>> I think this would only be the case if the two groups of people, KDE >>> Developers and KDE-on-Mac packagers/users, were non-overlapping sets. >> >> I think they probably are non-overlapping sets. There *is* a KDE Mac >> mailing list, but I receive only a few posts per year from it, as compared >> with several a day from Macports. > > This might indicate that the "KDE on Mac" group (like many other KDE > projects) has too few contributors, and needs help from Mac users who > care about KDE software.
It really is defunct, Frank. There used to be a web page about three years ago, about building KDE on Apple, providers like Macports, Fink and (more recently) Homebrew, and other topics. But it became unmaintained and out-of-date, so the guys who ran the KDE Mac group back then just shut the page down and tiptoed away. I don't blame them - it is an all too common situation in KDE … :-( Someone gets weary or busy elsewhere, then there is no-one ready to take over ... > Since KDE on Mac seems to need help, and you are a Mac user who cares > about the KDE user experience, and you know other Mac users who are > interested in KDE, you look like the perfect organizer for a "Test KDE > sotware on Mac" group to me! No chance. I am getting too old and have already announced my intention to retire from KDE Games this year. Also I live in Australia and it is nearly impossible to organise anything from there, because of distances and time zones. Running a couple of GSOC students in 2012 nearly killed me ... :-) Cheers, Ian W. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
