Splitting Craft, move the recipes to GitHub

Luigi Toscano luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
Wed Aug 23 14:38:38 BST 2017


On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 15:33:09 CEST Hannah von Reth wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We have been thinking about splitting the Craft recipes into a separate
> repository for some time now.
> To have a Craft core and the recipes separated would enable us to
> provide more stable user experience. It would allow us to use the latest
> recipes with the stable core.
> 
> At the same time Craft tries to get rid of the image as the KDE Windows
> build tool.
> 
> Craft offers recipes for many libraries and non KDE applications.
> Additionally Craft offers support for Mac, Linux and FreeBSD.
> 
> In order to reach more people we intend to move the recipes to GitHub to
> enable non KDE contributors to add their recipes.
> Craft would continue to be a KDE Project on the KDE infrastructure, only
> the recipes would move.

Does it mean that people who want to contribute to recipes for applications 
developed by KDE should go to github?


This is more or less the same as saying "so to get rid the image of kdelibs, 
let's put Frameworks on github only".


I'm a bit sad.


-- 
Luigi



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