Rebranding the release service

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dilluns, 15 de febrer de 2021, a les 14:01:25 CET, Jonathan Riddell va escriure:
> Here at KDE we've always struggled a bit with branding and the announcement
> of formats for the bunch of releases that was originally "KDE" then "KDE
> SC" then "KDE Applications" and at Akademy 2019 we decided to debrand it
> and make it a release service with lots of different stuff in it.  We had
> monthly update announcements that included those releases on the months
> when they happened and otherwise included everything else released over the
> past month.  But the format doesn't seem to have caught on by various
> metrics.  So the promo group had some chat about different formats you can
> read at https://phabricator.kde.org/T14091
> 
> Currently the plan is to reband it probably with the name KDE Gear.

Ouch, y'all ended up liking my silly suggestion ^_^ Sorry about that.

Anyhow, I'm expecting we're not necessarily have to change stuff like branch names or RELEASE_SERVICE_VERSION_MAJOR cmake variables to adapt to this promo driven change, right?

Cheers,
  Albert

> That
> gets released every 4 months (same as currently) with a big announcement
> for it and everything in it.  It's still a collection of apps and
> supporting libraries with no connection to each other except they happen to
> be KDE projects which don't want to do their own release work.  Then every
> 4 months on the months between times we have an update article highlighting
> all the other stuff that has been released by KDE.  The bugfix releases for
> KDE Gear happen monthly as currently and only have a minimal announcement.
> 
> We hope this format will get some more traction with engagement from
> outside press and social media buzz.  Any comments welcome.
> 
> Jonathan
>