sddm product in bugzilla?

Martin Steigerwald martin at lichtvoll.de
Mon Oct 12 09:14:14 UTC 2015


Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2015, 10:10:47 CEST schrieb David Edmundson:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de>
> 
> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I know that sddm upstream is not a KDE project, but still I wondered as I
> > reported issue #509 and #510¹, which are clearly things where sddm
> > regresses
> > in terms of features in comparison with the former standard display
> > manager
> > for Plasma kdm, at least whether to allow reporting issues with it also in
> > bugs.kde.org for Plasma users?
> > 
> > Or even invite the sddm project to be hosted on the KDE infrastructure
> > while
> > of course still allowing it to support other desktop environments and be
> > independent in its development? I also wonder about this, cause a clear
> > Plasma
> > only component sddm-kcm is also hosted with github.com.
> 
> That part with the KCM isn't true anymore. That got moved and adopted into
> KDE about 12 months ago for Plasma 5.1.
> Bugzilla component is there for that too. (systemsettings -> kcm_sddm)

Okay. I usually just to Ctrl-F after clicking "New" thats why I didn´t find 
it, but yeah technically it makes sense for the KCM to be under 
systemsettings.
 
> > I bet some people could be confused on how to report issues when they do
> > not
> > find the component in our bugzilla. My expectation so far was: If its
> > Plasma,
> > I report it with bugs.kde.org and it would be a bit difficult to explain
> > to
> > users, this is not Plasma, this you report there and if you go further
> > also,
> > this is also not Plasma and you need to report there, with always creating
> > an
> > account there, cause you cannot reuse the KDE one. Of course when people
> > report bugs regarding sddm in bugs.kde.org upstream probably does not
> > notice.
> 
> I don't think SDDM should be considered "part of Plasma" any more so than
> any other 3rd party dependency is simply because the precursor was.
> It'd be like adopting bugs with pulseaudio because we used to have artsd.

Okay, I report issues via github then. And point other users asking to github 
as well for sddm.

Thanks for clarification,
-- 
Martin


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