build.kde.org and packaging

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday 24 April 2012 1:48:45 PM you wrote:
> Hi Allen,
> 
> I had the idea of using our jenkins installation for generating and test building our release tarballs or a snapshot version of them.
> 
> Would this be a good idea or should I stop right now :) ?
> 

I think this is a wonderful idea.
I am CC'ing the Release Team -- hope you don't mind.

Since we can't possibly cover all distros and O/S variants so we'll still need to release test versions,
but I think this is still a great initiative.

> As I understand it the needed scripts are in kde-common/release in svn, is that correct?
> If that is correct what is the process of generating the tarballs? The readme file seems to deal only with the svn era setup.
> 

Right, thus we need  Dirk.