New Application Status

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:37 AM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Continuing to have pages for unmaintained applications sounds okay, subject
to appstream metadata being available (not a given as we source them from
CI artifacts right now).

We probably wouldn't want to list unmaintained applications on say the
front page of apps.kde.org or the category lists though?


>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>

Cheers,
Ben


>
> >
> > > * 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
>
>
>
>
>
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