[dot] KDE Frameworks 5.2.0 release

[Carl Symons]

On 09/10/2014 02:05 AM, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2014 08:21:02 Carl Symons wrote:
>> On 09/09/2014 06:57 AM, David Faure wrote:
>>> I just tagged and packed 5.2.0.
>>>
>>> I extracted the following changelog items from git commits. But I don't
>>> really understand the plasma-framework and threadweaver commits....
>>> Mirko and Plasma people: can you tell me the relevant changes ?
>>>
>>>     Hint: `git log v5.1.0..`
>>
>> The release is in 2 days...11 September.
>
> I gave packagers one more day since I was late with the tagging,
> so rather 12 September.
>
>> It would help promo to translate these capabilities into language that
>> users could understand and appreciate. Can this be done in the time
>> available? Maybe it would be better for a big announcement for 5.3 (9
>> October)
>>
>> There is promo value in continuing to publicize KF5 and the intention of
>> making Frameworks available to the broad Qt community. For that reason,
>> it would be good to include KF5 details too. For example:
>>
>> This release fixes an issue with the KConfigWidgets framework where
>> missing default shortcuts for standard actions caused too many warnings.
>> Now users will not be bothered when they use standard shortcuts. (Or
>> something like that).
>
> I see what you mean. But in fact this means splitting the notes into two
> sections: interesting for users and interesting for developers, right?
>
> The API changes are not interesting to users, while the fact that
> "K New Stuff" works again does.
>
> I'm not sure if both types of items should then go onto the dot, or if
> developer changelog should use another channel (I'm thinking that posting them
> to kde-core-devel would be a good idea in any case, for dinosaurs like me who
> have enough trouble catching up with mailing-lists already and don't read news
> websites in addition to that -- but I can take care of that, anyway).
>

Hello David,

Your response made me think of this in more depth. I think that your 
take on it is correct. The announcements about the frequent releases 
should be tailored to developers.

Jos has been pushing promotion of Frameworks 5 and the KDE/Qt 
relationship. This topic has more to do with developers than users. It's 
trivial to tell users that, for example, they won't be bothered by 
missing default shortcuts. We should have a different storyline for 
users...maybe something more conceptual and over a longer period of time 
that the release cycles.

Further to your point, developers are more likely to see the value in 
the individual improvements, and more often than not, they are earning 
money with their work. So this is a better avenue to sponsorships and 
fundraising than trying to get individual users to pony up for the value 
they receive.

Thanks
Carl