Rebranding the release service

[Nate Graham]

On 2/15/21 3:18 PM, 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.

Don't sell yourself short, Albert; I think it was really good!


> 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 don't think so, no. Those are implementation details, and it would 
certainly be a pain in the neck to update them to reflect the name, only 
to change them again if we change the name in the future. My vote is to 
keep the internal strings the same.

Nate