KDiff3 release

[Michael Reeves]

On Mon, May 3, 2021, 2:02 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 12:51 AM Carl Schwan <carl at carlschwan.eu> wrote:
>
>> Le lundi, mai 3, 2021 2:30 PM, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> a écrit :
>>
>> > On Monday, 3 May 2021 13:00:11 CEST kde-announce-apps-request at kde.org
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > 1.  KDiff3 1.9.0 released (Michael Reeves)
>> > >
>> > > From: Michael Reeves reeves.87 at gmail.com
>> > > KDiff3 1.9.0 is now released.
>> > > It can be found at https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiff3/
>> > > kdiff3-1.9.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist
>> >
>> > Yay! This reached our (FreeBSD) packaging yesterday because the
>> tarballs went
>> > up on the download site. It leaves me slightly scratching my head,
>> because
>> > of inconsistencies -- that's why I'm CC'ing kde-community, where "All
>> about
>> > the Apps" is a KDE goal topic and it's good to get more exposure.
>> >
>> > > Partial Change log:
>> >
>> > So, KDiff3 is not part of the KDE Gear process. That's cool -- that's
>> why we
>> > get separate release announcements for it :)
>> >
>> > I see there's a tag on invent, but no GitLab-style release. Have you
>> > considered doing those as well? It's one way of making release notes
>> easier to
>> > find (not just hidden on a mailing list like this one).
>>
>> This might sound like a good idea but isn't one. The gitlab-style release
>> has
>> the problem that they don't include the translations and the solution is
>> to add
>> a link to the actual tarball. But this also creates confusion because
>> then there
>> are two tarballs with different content for the same release. :( There
>> are some
>> ideas on how to fix it and I think the localization team would appreciate
>> a helping
>> hand (or two). See https://phabricator.kde.org/T13519
>
>
> Gitlab now supports creating a release from an existing tag, so it is now
> possible for us to add translations as part of the tagging process and have
> them picked up in a Gitlab-style release (I believe this is what David does
> for Frameworks already)
>
How would this work for extragrear?

>
>
>>
>>
>> > The AppData release info was bumped, but only on the release branch;
>> that
>> > means that KDE's apps pages (e.g. https://apps.kde.org/kdiff3/) still
>> show
>> > outdated information.
>>
>> While at it, it's also a good practice to add a link to the announcement
>> and
>> some data like links to the tarballs/exe/appimage/... The appstream
>> documentation has more info
>> about it:
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-releases
>>
>> apps.kde.org will show most of the optional information if available.
>> I'm looking
>> into making this release information also available as RSS feeds. It's
>> also available
>> as part of the apps.kde.org semi-public API:
>> https://apps.kde.org/appdata/org.kde.kontrast.json
>>
>> While at it I would like to point out to
>> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/appstream-metainfo-release-update/-/merge_requests/3
>> ,
>> since the AppStream updater used by the release service removes this
>> precious
>> information and this is why I stopped adding them to Kontrast AppStream
>> file :(
>>
>> >
>> > I'm a bit confused by the (AppData) "homepage" URL, since that leads
>> round-
>> > aboutly to the apps page; I think my confusion is because that URL is
>> shown as
>> > "project homepage" on apps.kde.org, but doesn't effectively do
>> anything. (So
>> > it's more a website-generator confusion than about your specific app)
>>
>> Yeah, this is a problem on the website generator side. If someone is
>> interested
>> to fix it, it probably just needs to add some if condition here:
>>
>> https://invent.kde.org/websites/apps-kde-org/-/blob/master/layouts/applications/single.html#L225
>>
>> This documentation might help you: https://gohugo.io/functions/in/.
>> Patch welcome :D
>>
>> > Hopefully my comments & questions can lead to better releases for all,
>> both
>> > Gear and independents without saddling you with any additional work.
>> >
>> > [ade]
>>
>>
>>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
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