[kde-community] Re: Applications Lifecycle Policy

[Volker Krause]

We'll have a BoF for that on Wednesday 11:30 in room 2.4.

On Sunday, 23 July 2017 19:08:12 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> Hello folks, I would just like to ask if there is a BoF scheduled
> about this? Has a Phab board been created? As a GSoC admin for KDE, we
> are always trying to urge/require students to include writing tests as
> part of their daily coding, as well as documenting their code /
> creating APIdox / writing user docs.
> 
> If the group of developers interested in creating this thinks that
> this testing regimen is too difficult to get done in a short time, how
> about creating a plan for a prospective Season of KDE student? Some
> sort of infobox on every application website that continuously reports
> test coverage, translation/internationalization/localization
> statistics and other relevant information could be very useful. A
> number of you interested people could be resources for such a student
> or students.
> 
> We are already making the idea of seeking review for commits desirable
> and even standard in KDE. The same could be true for automated test
> coverage of the entire KDE codebase.
> 
> Valorie
> 
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Sandro Knauß <sknauss at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> >> Having automated checks would be great but I see no practical proposal
> >> for
> >> how to get those.  I'm not even sure it's possible to automate questions
> >> like "should this be translated?" or "are all the licences clear?".
> > 
> > well for "are all the licences clear?" are several tools to check the
> > license for files. That at least would give us the first step, if we
> > would arrange, that every file must be detectable by this tool. I could
> > also create a script, that simply can be fired to the repos.
> > 
> > Than at last manual step to check if the different license work together
> > is a lot faster, because you know already the different licenses of all
> > the files.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > 
> > sandro


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