[kde-community] Re: Applications Lifecycle Policy

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:37:09PM +0200, Martin Flöser wrote:
> Let's just remove it and separate into applications released as part
> of a larger bundle for release simplification and applications
> having their own release cycle.

That's what I've written, they're all the same just different details in release.
https://community.kde.org/Policies/Application_Lifecycle/Draft

I include Calligra, Krita, KDevelop and Amarok in the Self Released category.  Maybe that'll get changed in repo-metadata but it's hardly important.

> With extragear gone I don't really see the need of playground any
> more. Playground applications are just like all the other things,
> except that they did not go through KDE Review. Which brings me to
> the next point: remove the review.

If the review can be automated that would be great but so far that's
not the case and issues are frequently brought up.

As a packager I often come across the same issues as kdereview should
because, as pointed out, we only do a 1 off review, but it's nicer to
have that 1 off than nothing while there's no automation.

I didn't include krazy/ebn in the sanity checklist because I never got
an answer on how relevant it is to the process.  As others have said
it's more about project infrastructure being sane rather than code
being high quality.

https://community.kde.org/ReleasingExtragearSoftware#Sanity_Checklist

Jonathan