What can we expect from our developers

[Justin Zobel]

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
>
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