Applications Lifecycle Policy

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimarts, 4 de juliol de 2017, a les 23:04:08 CEST, Christian Mollekopf va 
escriure:
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017, at 01:20 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > The applications lifecycle policy needs an update
> > 
> > Is this a good current state of it or are there more stages?
> > 
> > https://community.kde.org/Policies/Application_Lifecycle/Draft
> 
> Looks good to me for what it currently is.
> 
> In general I think:
> * it should be ok to release from playground for years, or even
> potentially forever.

Why?

> * going to extragear/applications should be an extra quality badge where
> you sign up for certain requirements (which is why I think it should be
> possible to release from extragear forever. Perhaps some project is just
> not interested in translations for instance...)

If you're not interested in translations you don't belong into KDE.
Translations are a core of our user friendlyness declaration.

Cheers,
  Albert

> * Abolishing the extragear/applications differentiation at this level
> would make more sense to me (extragear does have a second class feel to
> it), instead applications should just declare that they are part of the
> applications release. This would indeed also ease transitioning between
> releases and dealing with the versioning should be up to the maintainers
> (of course versions that go down are not at all something that should be
> accepted ever anywhere).
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian