You use something called "releaseme" to create a tarball, upload it to ftp and ask Sysadmin to release it. Then you write a release announcement and distro packagers pick it up.
More detailed info here: https://techbase.kde.org/ReleasingExtragearSoftware Freundliche Grüße Boudhayan Gupta KDE e.V. - Sysadmin and Community Working Groups +49 151 71032970 On 21 June 2017 at 08:43, Arnav Dhamija <arnav.dham...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds great then. My question is - where are KDE Extragear apps > actually distributed? Are they only available in repos, or are they > distributed with mainline builds of Plasma distros such as Neon and > Kubuntu? > > Also, are there any other follow up formalities I have to do to 'ship' > this for good? > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:49 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > > El dimarts, 20 de juny de 2017, a les 11:24:49 CEST, Arnav Dhamija va > > escriure: > >> > ok, tests pass now here locally too, *but* they don't finish, i.e. the > >> > testdaemon process keeps running forever, does anyone else see this? > >> > >> It turns out I hadn't terminated the QProcess after the test case had > >> finished executing. This is fixed in the latest commit to master. > > > > Great :) > > > >> > >> > Can you please update your Readme.md? > >> > >> > >> I have done this, with a small note under the heading mentioning that > it is > >> a GSoC project. > > > > Sounds good :) > > > >> Now, we can start discussing the shipping of the ioslave and whether > it's a > >> better fit for KDE extragear or for mainline KDE Frameworks. I would be > >> happy with releasing it in extra gear initially and later moving it to > KDE > >> Applications/Frameworks if there is enough interest from the community > to > >> do so. > > > > Personally, i think you should go for extragear first since it gives you > much > > more freedom on doing releases (vs a fixed 4 months for KDE Applications) > > which in case of a new project is always interesting since it allows you > to > > introduce features more rapidly in answer to users that start using it. > On the > > downside you need to learn to do the releases, but for a small product > is not > > that hard. > > > > Cheers, > > Albert > > > >> > >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 2:34 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> > wrote: > >> > El divendres, 26 de maig de 2017, a les 22:55:11 CEST, Arnav Dhamija > va > >> > > >> > escriure: > >> > > Hi! > >> > > > >> > > I had made the kio-stash ioslave last year as part of my GSoC 2016 > >> > > Project. Now that most of the changes which I wished to make in > >> > > Dolphin relevant to the ioslave are part of master, I wish to ship > the > >> > > ioslave soon. > >> > > > >> > > The project is now in KDE review and is awaiting feedback. The link > >> > > for the same can be found here: > >> > > https://phabricator.kde.org/R247:0f4dc333ac8469b36d1b3a1cedd0a6 > >> > > >> > 672ac907b8 > >> > > >> > > The source of the project can be found here: > >> > > https://cgit.kde.org/kio-stash.git/ > >> > > >> > Can you please update your Readme.md? > >> > > >> > # GSoC 2016 File Stash project for KDE > >> > > >> > sounds bad, we're not in 2016 anymore, > >> > > >> > # File Stash kioslave > >> > > >> > sounds more clear of what it is. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > > >> > Albert > >> > > >> > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > -- > arnav dhamija >
