[kde-promo] KDE Frameworks 5 promo

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Wednesday 02 July 2014 19:00:49 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wednesday 02 July 2014 10:48:58 David Faure wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 July 2014 10:35:29 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 July 2014 23:13:24 David Faure wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 01 July 2014 16:16:48 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > > > KDE Frameworks 5 gets its first release this week, anyone want to
> > > > > help
> > > > > me with a Dot story and release announcement?
> > > > 
> > > > For linking from the announcement, I committed source-kf-5.0.0.inc
> > > > to www/info
> > > 
> > > I'll try to help where I can. I've set up a etherpad:
> > > https://notes.kde.org/p/Frameworks5.0
> 
> Gave it a quick look, it's nice so far. Maybe a couple more examples of
> frameworks we provide would be an idea? KConfig and Solid perhaps?
> 
> > > I wrote the first 3 sentences explaining what Frameworks is. But I'll
> > > need
> > > to know some details about the first release and links  to the full
> > > list
> > > of frameworks, tarballs etc.
> > > Some questions:
> > > * What is the final on the release schedule?
> > 
> > Public release on Monday 7.
> > 
> > BTW the release schedule for the next releases is up at
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/Frameworks
> > 
> > > * What Qt version is this made for?
> > 
> > Qt >= 5.2
> > 
> > > * any caveats developers should be aware off?
> > 
> > The KAuth framework is not working on linux at the moment
> > (unreleased dependency polkit-qt-1 + crash in Qt 5.2/5.3).
> > 
> > (so basically it only works on Mac, since it has no backend for Windows)
> > 
> > The only reason we're releasing it is that other things (kconfigwidgets,
> > Plasma Next) depends on it to compile. But we know that this particular
> > bit of functionality (running configuration modules as root) is broken
> > for now.
> And not really essential for most third parties. Only Plasma will be
> affected in a minor fashion.
> 
> > > * where can you 'get started' with Frameworks?
> > 
> > Good question.
> > I think
> > http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/
> > is the main starting point for using frameworks.
> > 
> > (Comment for K-F-D : I just noticed that this page uses the terms
> > "functional", "integration" and "solution" without explaining what that
> > means)
> 
> Right, not sure where to get that changed. Aurélien? What about restating
> what they mean? Or linking to the relevant place in the wikis.
> 
> > For compiling them from sources we don't really have docu, we expect
> > people to use distro packages instead.
> 
> Depend which people we're thinking about. Some developer working on a third
> party application targeting among other platforms Windows is likely to
> build from source... he's also likely to just handpick a few frameworks.
> 
> So I guess we're indeed missing a place to state how to build the things...
> which really is in its most crude form:
> cmake .
> make
> make install
> 
> > Compiling all of them from sources "by hand" would be quite painful,
> > compared to using kdesrc-build which handles dependencies.
> 
> Which is the preferred method for people willing to contribute or track the
> whole set of frameworks.
> 
> > Of course compiling a single tier1 framework (after compiling ECM) is
> > easy.
> Exactly, and that has to be emphasized quite a bit (see above).
> 
> > > Anything else? Please, shoot any ideas you have that users (that is Qt
> > > developers in case of Framework) should be aware off...
> > 
> > Out of ideas for now, I'll let other chime in.
> 
> As long as we emphasize that a) most of them are easy to build for your own
> project and b) that they provide proven solutions to a wide range of
> common problems (making them the perfect companions for Qt), I will be
> happy. :-)
> 
> Cheers.

All implemented as far as I could. Please provide a last round of feedback 
before this gets put on the dot and on kde.org - I hope to have time for that 
later this weekend.

I will also approach digia and KDAB for help in spreading the word on this, 
if you're associated/have contacts at other organizations that are prominent 
in the Qt ecosystem, please let them know about the Frameworks 5 release so 
they can support our release with a blog or on social media.

We go live Monday the 7th, I propose 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST).

Cheers,
Jos
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