Binary packages section of info/release.php pages

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sat Nov 10 00:56:44 UTC 2012


El Dissabte, 10 de novembre de 2012, a les 04:30:31, Michael Palimaka va 
escriure:
> On 2012-11-09 23:33, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Friday, November 09, 2012 00:27:18 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >> I was looking today at http://www.kde.org/info/4.9.3.php#binary and see
> >> there's only the Kubuntu information there when i know a few more distros
> >> have  released 4.9.3 packages.
> >> 
> >> Do we still need that? It looks a bit sad how it looks right now (and has
> >> looked in the various releases).
> >> 
> >> Do we want to remove it?
> >> 
> >> Do we want to replace it with something else?
> >> 
> >> Ideas?
> > 
> > In its current state, I'd say: ditch it. If packagers would like to see
> > their binary packages listed there (and it's not just one or two
> > distros), then we need to find a way to add the binary packages as they
> > arrive. Could be a manual thing, asking someone to add a link there,
> > even, or we put it on a wiki page, making it less maintainance work for
> > the release team and easier to edit for those that would like to see
> > their packages advertised.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder why packagers aren't updating that page anymore?
> 
> I also note that http://www.kde.org/download/distributions.php is
> looking a bit sad too.

Why? It's the kde version the distros ship with.

> If maintaining a list of which distro has what is not working, perhaps
> we could just list distros that carry it, linking to their respective
> KDE packages/guide/information/whatever?

Sure that might work, but outbound links end up breaking since people 
reorganize their wikis and forget there was stuff coming from outside.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Best regards,
> Michael
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