[kde-community] Discussion: KDE Manifesto, "established practices"

[Peter Grasch]

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On 11/11/2013 06:35 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday, November 11, 2013 12:16:38 Peter Grasch wrote:
>> These people can not expected to know that deviating in case of
>> special considerations is standard practice within the KDE
>> community.
> 
> not at all. the key phrase is "established practices”. so, the
> established practice of, say, respecting string freezes. yes, there
> are exceptions to that rule, but those exceptions are codified *in
> the establishment of the practice of release engineering*.
> 
> if a given practice establishes *for itself* exceptions, then those
> exceptions are part of the “established practices”.
IIRC, this clause was put there - among other reasons, some of which
you address - to justify e.g. Necessitas and even Owncloud not
following a whole range of our "established practices".

It was my understanding that attracting such diverse project to the
KDE umbrella was recognized as being in our best interest and
something we want to encourage.

I don't think that the clause as it stands today can really be seen as
a "wildcard" for projects to do what they want. (And, afaik, this also
hasn't been a problem as of yet but please correct me if I'm wrong here.)
What these few simple words do signal, however, is that while we do
have rules, KDE is a community of human beings that can be talked to
instead of a faceless set of laws. To me, this is a really important
point and also something that is often surprising to people who
haven't interacted with FOSS communities before.

But maybe this is just me misinterpreting it, so let's stay with a
practical example: How would Necessitas be justified under the KDE
umbrella given the updated language?

Best regards,
Peter
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