Re: KDE is all about the apps goal

2021-06-04 Thread Aleix Pol
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 2:39 AM Aleix Pol wrote: > > Hi everyone, > As you might have seen in Adam's blog post [1], I'm planning on going > through a set of topics. Before diving into it all, I feel it could be > useful to have a call together before Akademy and see what this > process will look li

KDE is all about the apps goal

2021-06-01 Thread Aleix Pol
Hi everyone, As you might have seen in Adam's blog post [1], I'm planning on going through a set of topics. Before diving into it all, I feel it could be useful to have a call together before Akademy and see what this process will look like and which ways we can make it so the creators in our commu

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-26 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Greetings Jonathan, Le 2021-04-23 à 05:58, Jonathan Riddell a écrit : KDE's All About the Apps Goal hopes to use modern methods of getting our apps to users.  I seem not to have been clear about what I mean by that so time to check in and ask again. These days apps (and websites an

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-25 Thread Eike Hein
> That particular patch is confusing as it's claiming to be about giving > developers control, but it's changing a file in the release scripts to > take the control away from the app developers... the exact opposite of > your opening paragraph. > I'm probably understanding it wrong, but then so ar

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-25 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 10:58, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > KDE's All About the Apps Goal hopes to use modern methods of getting our > apps to users. I seem not to have been clear about what I mean by that so > time to check in and ask again. These days apps (and websites and any

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-25 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 10:04 PM Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Friday, 23 April 2021 11:58:07 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > KDE's All About the Apps Goal hopes to use modern methods of getting our > > apps to users. > > Let's reboot this conversation and the dis

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-25 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 23 April 2021 11:58:07 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > KDE's All About the Apps Goal hopes to use modern methods of getting our > apps to users. Let's reboot this conversation and the discussion in the MR. I'll give it a shot: === The KDE community selected &q

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread Christoph Cullmann
On 2021-04-23 21:04, Ben Cooksley wrote: My personal suggestion would be to pick a few applications and try to work with them to get the tooling up. E.g. Krita, Kate, KWrite and Okular. And try to automate. Don't have the application developers maintain all those variants. It's too much! Maybe it

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 6:29 AM Martin Flöser wrote: > Am Freitag, 23. April 2021, 11:58:07 CEST schrieb Jonathan Riddell: > > > https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-tools/-/merge_requests/15#note_20593 > > 5 > > > > I've little interest in putting lots of apps into app stores without this > >

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread Martin Flöser
Am Freitag, 23. April 2021, 11:58:07 CEST schrieb Jonathan Riddell: > https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-tools/-/merge_requests/15#note_20593 > 5 > > I've little interest in putting lots of apps into app stores without this > change of culture where app developers take some responsibility for

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread Nate Graham
eep doing what you already do :) Nate On 4/23/21 3:58 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: KDE's All About the Apps Goal hopes to use modern methods of getting our apps to users.  I seem not to have been clear about what I mean by that so time to check in and ask again.  These days apps (and websites and

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread Aleix Pol
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:58 AM Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > KDE's All About the Apps Goal hopes to use modern methods of getting our apps > to users. I seem not to have been clear about what I mean by that so time to > check in and ask again. These days apps (and websites

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread David Edmundson
> Recently I made a minimum viable patch for the KDE Gear release tooling to > bump up the version numbers where those apps have snapcraft packaging files. > However I've been told I shouldn't "overstate the nature of the goal" with an > objection to integrating the packaging into the app repos

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread Jonah Brüchert
I don't think most people fundamentally object to maintaining packaging for stores, but not everyone is interested in all stores or knows how packaging for all those stores work. Maybe an opt-in process would work, were the application maintainers are encouraged to move the packaging for a spe

All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-23 Thread Jonathan Riddell
KDE's All About the Apps Goal hopes to use modern methods of getting our apps to users. I seem not to have been clear about what I mean by that so time to check in and ask again. These days apps (and websites and any software) gets developed by developers who are empowered to deploy them al