New Application Status

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 5 de desembre del 2024, a les 13:57:26 (Hora estàndard del Centre 
d’Europa), Ingo Klöcker va escriure:
> On Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2024 10:27:13 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Ben
> 
> Cooksley wrote:
> > Trying to coming full circle on this here, but in summary sounds like
> > there
> > are a couple of things to change going forward:
> > 
> > * For apps.kde.org, we should flag applications in accordance with their
> > Lifecycle status in the metadata (ie. unmaintained and those yet to pass
> > KDE Review should be flagged in some form or another)
> 
> Yes. For beta apps. I'd say for unmaintained apps there shouldn't be a page
> on apps.kde.org. Given that there won't be build artifacts for unmaintained
> apps (at least not for long) there is anyway no AppStream data for creating
> such a page.

In my opinion once a page exists it needs to exist forever.

Imagine Okular goes unmaintained, I don't want the lots of pages pointing to 
https://apps.kde.org/okular/ to suddenly point to a 404

I want to see a page that says "This is unmaintained" but still has the old 
contents.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> > * We should institute tighter controls regarding releases of applications
> > and ensuring projects pass KDE Review first
> 
> Make that "stable releases". For good reasons our lifecycle policy
> explicitly allows unstable releases for Playground projects (but not for
> incubated projects).
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo