Rethinking https://www.kde.org/download/distributions.php

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 5 de juliol de 2015, a les 15:53:13, Andrej Mernik va escriure:
> Dne 05. 07. 2015 ob 13:16 je Albert Astals Cid zapisal(a):
> > El Dimecres, 1 de juliol de 2015, a les 16:14:12, Andrej Mernik va 
escriure:
> >> Dne 30. 06. 2015 ob 13:31 je R33D3M33R zapisal(a):
> >>> Dne 30. 06. 2015 ob 13:10 je Ben Cooksley zapisal(a):
> >>>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> >>>> 
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> That page has a problem:
> >>>> Hi Albert,
> >>>> 
> >>>>>    * It lists kdelibs when it should list Plasma 5, KDE Frameworks
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> and KDE
> >>>>> Applications versions
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> The problem is that knowing that for each distro is A LOT OF WORK,
> >>>>> previously
> >>>>> we could piggy-back on DistroWatch to read kdelibs code but
> >>>>> DistroWatch is not
> >>>>> having the 3 versions for the three things we need.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> One possibility is just killing the page.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Anyone remembers what was the original rationale for having that list?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Was probably so people could find a distro with KDE, back in the day.
> >>>> These days so many distros carry our software that i'm not sure it has
> >>>> any worth anymore.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I'd be in favour of killing it, pointing people to a list of
> >>>> distributions which carry KDE software (not stating versions) on the
> >>>> wiki (so people / packagers / distributors can self-maintain it).
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>     Albert
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Ben
> >>> 
> >>> Hello,
> >>> 
> >>> I think this page should list only popular distributions which ship
> >>> with Plasma Desktop as default DE. This way new users could get their
> >>> hands on most polished KDE experience and the list would be shorter
> >>> and easier to maintain.
> >>> 
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Andrej
> >> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> so I did a small analysis of
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions and found
> >> around 30 distributions using Plasma Desktop as primary DE. I filtered
> >> the list for unmaintained distros and have chosen five of them that are
> >> probably the most popular and thus offer best KDE experience. I also
> >> included example links which can be directly scraped for package
> >> versions (PCLinuxOS website doesn't seem to have a package search
> >> feature)
> >> 
> >> OpenSuse | https://software.opensuse.org/package/plasma5-desktop
> >> Mageia | http://mageia.madb.org/package/show/name/plasma-desktop
> >> PcLinuxOS | http://www.pclinuxos.com/get-pclinuxos/kde/
> >> Kubuntu | http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/plasma-desktop
> >> Gentoo | https://packages.gentoo.org/package/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop
> >> 
> >> I also want to offer my programming skills to implement the
> >> functionality ... :)
> > 
> > Thanks for offering your programming skills but we don't need them for
> > this, let's just make distributions fill their data.
> > 
> > On the other hand we're trying to find someone to give
> > https://www.kde.org/events/ a look&feel more similar to
> > https://www.kde.org/ (at least have some of the top-level menus, etc), do
> > you feel like trying?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >    Albert
> 
> Hello,
> 
> sure, why not. I will need a quick introduction to how the website is
> organized (if you have any internal standards, programming
> recommendations, etc.). You can e-mail me for more details or
> alternatively we can discuss over IRC.

I'll need to know your IRC nickname, mine is tsdgeos and i hang around lots of 
kde channels in freedesktop #kde-devel, etc. I'm sometimes in #kde-www but not 
all the time.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
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