[Kde-scm-interest] Meeting minutes

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday 16 November 2009 04:16:10 pm Chani wrote:
>> On November 16, 2009 13:52:58 Ingmar Vanhassel wrote:
>> > Excerpts from Chani's message of Mon Nov 16 22:26:16 +0100 2009:
>> > > interesting...
>> > > given that packagers have to split up kde applications anyways, could
>> > > it be *good* to offer individual tarballs? if so, wouldn't now be the
>> > > least painful time to make such a change? what if kdegames was a
>> > > gitorious project with 39 repos (assuming one extra for shared stuff)?
>> >
>> > Speaking as a packager, it would be simply great to provide individual
>> > tarballs for some modules.
>> >
>> > I care less about splitting kdelibs, kdepimlibs, and the
>> > kdebase-runtime, kdebase-workspace modules. Modules like kdenetwork &
>> > kdegames, which as someone put it earlier, are more like an aggregation
>> > of projects, are a different matter though.  Those modules have a
>> > relatively simple dependency tree in the module, and it shouldn't be too
>> > much effort to split those up.
>> >
>> > And yes, I'm prepared to help in this effort and I'm confident that I'm
>> > not the only packager who is.
>>
>> well... if we have people volunteering... why not, eh? :)
>> my main concern about it was that it'd be work that someone has to do.
>>
>> btw... it'd probably be a good idea to talk to some of the biggest
>>  committers to such modules. after all, they're going to be among the main
>>  users, it seems like this discussion should involve them...
>>
>
> Personally, I'd love to split kopete from kdenetwork (and still keep all the
> benefits of being part of a main KDE release) since I'm really only interested
> in working on Kopete. I couldn't care less about the rest of kdenetwork (even
> though there are some great apps in there) since I generally don't touch the
> code.

We have a nice home for you in extragear. You can even just put
yourself on a list and someone else will handle doing the release for
you with every kde release. :)