Rebranding the release service

[Christoph Cullmann]

On 2021-02-15 23:18, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 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?

I would vote for keeping the generic purely
internal names we have.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> 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
>> 

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