How to become a distribution?

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 3:15 PM A. Wilcox <awilfox at adelielinux.org> wrote:
>
> Hello there,

Hi A.,

>
> I'm the project lead of Adélie Linux, a musl libc-based distribution
> focused on security and reliability.  Our primary desktop environment is
> KDE.  I noticed that some distributions already have access to the
> 18.08.1 and 5.50 tarballs, while we don't.  For instance, on the
> Applications schedule[1], it states: "Minor release is tagged and made
> available to the packagers".  How does one tell KDE we're packaging your
> software and would love to be on the list of people who obtain these
> releases?

Special distribution access is obtained by filing a Sysadmin request.
In this request you'll need to include details regarding your
distribution including a list of those who are on the KDE packaging
team, a brief history of your distribution and links to it's web
presence. Should none of your team have a KDE developer account you
should also attach the SSH Public Keys of one or more of your
packagers to the ticket. It is not permitted to share keys between
members of the team.

Your request should be made from an Identity account which has an
email address from your distributions' domain in order to authenticate
and verify that this request is being made officially on behalf of
your distribution.

Once the request is received Sysadmin will then assess the request,
and provide you with access to both pre-release packages as well as
invite you into the early access security disclosures list.

>
> I searched the Wiki for "distributions", "packagers", and "becoming an
> official distro", and read the entire archive (2016 to present) for this
> list, and found no documentation on this.  I also did a search of
> "packagers site:kde.org" on DuckDuckGo and came across this:
>
> https://www.kde.org/download/packagepolicy.php
>
> This policy makes it seem like we need to provide you with our .apks.  I
> would be more than happy to do so if that is what you require.
>
>
> Best to you and yours,
> --arw

Regards,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin

>
>
> [1]: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/18.08_Release_Schedule
>
> --
> A. Wilcox (awilfox)
> Project Lead, Adélie Linux
> https://www.adelielinux.org
>