Welcome everybody! - What can we do for you?

[Martin Graesslin]

On Friday, March 4, 2016 8:17:08 AM CET H W Tovetjärn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a contributor to Chakra and mostly see about our infrastructure. I
> have previously maintained the KDE SC packages (back in the days of 4.x).
> 
> What constitutes the Plasma experience you want the users to have and
> the distributions to deliver? Most of what I learned about packaging KDE
> software was through trial and error as well as following in the
> footsteps of other distributions. I may be missing something obvious
> here but I never found anything on the three KDE wikis aside from this:
> https://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build.  I would personally find
> a set of guidelines (at minimum) or a well written policy and protocol
> (especially concerning patches not accepted upstream) helpful.
> 
> On 03/03/16 21:41, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > - Do you feel well enough informed about which packages from KDE are
> > needed
> > for a decent Plasma experience?
> 
> I would expect KDE to define what it considers *decent* first, perhaps a
> set of guidelines as stated above. Something technical and tangible, not
> subjective and prone to misinterpretation. If you are referring to which
> packages we should have installed by default then guidelines would be
> useful here too. Please provide a link to them if they already exist and
> I missed them.

For me as a dev I try to specify it through CMakeLists. Like having explicit 
mandatory dependencies and good description of optional features. Can you 
please explain where this falls short? Given your reply I have a feeling that 
this isn't sufficient to notice what is really needed. (And that's also my 
experience so far which results in make everything mandatory).

Do you have ideas how we can improve the dependency specification through CMake 
which would make your job easier?

Cheers
Martin
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