Dear Boudhayan, Luca and all, On 02 Dec 2015, at 07:21 , Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/12/2015, at 8:00 PM, Luca Beltrame wrote: >> Personally I think that CI and code review has actually improved KDE >> software quite a bit, > > I believe you. Actually Marko Käning (another Macports-based developer) > and Ben Cooksley (sysadmin) set up the first OS X CI for KDE 4 and KF5, > with some help from a MacPorts Core Developer. Scarlett Clark now > provides those CI's I believe.
I’ve spent a year working on OSX/CI for KF5 and I believe that it helped locating and fixing quite a few bugs which weren’t existing only on the OSX platform... This work helped to revive communication between KDE and OSX/MacPorts (developers and port maintainers). Currently the OSXBUILDERs are taken offline due to Scarlett working on a major overhaul of the CI code being run on Jenkins. It would be a shame if MacPorts (but specifically René) is being shunned for being a controversial, but very active and productive developer! We already stated a few times that MacPorts doesn’t follow the app bundle approach KDE is targeting at with its applications, as it is more focused on OSX power-users who want to have a more modular and Linuxy environment on their Apple machines. @Boudhayan: Calling MacPorts/Fink “invasive" isn’t going to motivate us to work with you. You are right, KDE is a community, so why not behave like one?! From both sides! MacPorts/Fink’s port system should rather remind you of a typical Linux system and thus allow oftentimes a much simpler solution to bring KDE applications to life on OSX. Why don’t you want to see the plusses and seemingly solely focus - from your point of view - on all the negative aspects of such a setup?!? If you or others aren’t interested in supporting René’s endeavour, don’t be surprised if you’ll *** loose MacPorts’ KDE user-base *** very soon altogether, as he is one of a few who still keeps it ticking. If that were to happen, I’d find that rather sad, because it would render the year I spent on OSX/CI for KF5 completely in vain and would sentence KF5 applications on OSX/MacPorts to death, including KMyMoney, which I dedicated my work to mostly within the past years. I hope there are chances of reconsideration for the sake of the KDE community! I like Ian’s idea of a “Working Party” very much… Would be good to see that appear at last. :) Best regards, Marko >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
