Application usage statistics and targeted user surveys

[Volker Krause]

On Thursday, 8 June 2017 01:36:44 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El dissabte, 3 de juny de 2017, a les 11:49:00 CEST, Volker Krause va
> > 
> > escriure:
> >> On Thursday, 25 May 2017 12:33:49 CEST Volker Krause wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 18:31:35 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
> >> > > I would have looked into fixing it, but I'm not sure I understand why
> >> > > there's all the RPATH logic in place, so I'd prefer to hear from you
> >> > > first.
> >> > 
> >> > I have removed the remains of the pre-ECM rpath handling. This also
> >> > changed
> >> > binary output directories on Linux to follow KDE standards, so you
> >> > might
> >> > want to do a clean build to avoid issues with outdated binaries in the
> >> > build dir.
> >> > 
> >> > > A good next step would also be to get it running on build.kde.org, so
> >> > > we can identify these issues.
> >> > 
> >> > Indeed, I've requested CI coverage now.
> >> 
> >> Looks like in order to get CI coverage we need to move to kdereview
> >> (which
> >> is fine, I think it's ready for that), but that requires to know where
> >> this
> >> should end up afterwards.
> >> 
> >> I guess the candidates are extragear/libs or frameworks? frameworks seems
> >> conceptually like the right place, but putting something there that is
> >> still fairly new and has seen little field testing seems sub-optimal.
> >> Opinions?> 
> > To me it seems a few releases from extragear would make sense before
> > moving to frameworks and promise full API/ABI compatibility.

Sounds sensible to me, let's do that.

> > OTOH when moving from extreagear to frameworks we may have to rename
> > library (to have the KF5 suffix) which would break also API (at least at
> > the cmake level).
> > 
> > How do people feel having libs in extreager having the KF5 "cmake naming"
> > in the understanding that we're stabilizing them to be part of frameworks
> > eventually?
> 
> IMO it's a bit weird and unsettling. But then, we're already doing it
> for many pim libraries (not in extragear but in applications, still
> not part of KF5).

But isn't the rename the least of our problems if we start in extragear/libs 
exactly to be able to still do ABI, API and behavior changes until we are 
happy with things for frameworks?

I'll try to get all currently pending API changes in ASAP, and then get it 
moved to kdereview within this month.

Regards,
Volker
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