How to handle KDE not respecting YOUR distros requirements?

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Sunday 27 March 2016 15:34:07 Richard Brown wrote:
> 
> We've seen this trend mirrored even within openSUSE. Even as KDE with
> the default option in our installer, over recent years we've
> transitioned from a strong 'majority KDE' distribution to one where
> KDE is now used by less than 50% of our userbase.

Could you share the source for these numbers? Getting data about user numbers 
is always a challenge, especially for upstream projects, so this would be 
interesting for many people, I suppose.

> Advertising through software capability only speaks to a very narrow
> market, and problems with software quality erode that market
> dreadfully quickly. I think it's safe to say KDE has had severe
> problems with software quality lately, and I do not think that putting
> all of the responsibility of testing onto distributions is a sensible
> strategy to turn that around.

I think it would be helpful to be a bit more concrete here. Which bugs lead 
you to the conclusion that there is a problem with software quality? Having 
something concrete here would make it easier to work together on fixing the 
issues and identify which kind of testing would help with preventing issues in 
the first place.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>