Add kdeconnect-kde to release service

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 6:19 AM Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 17:09:11 CET Nicolas Fella wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we would like for KDE Connect to be included in the release service
> > beginning with the 20.04 release.
> >
> > As discussed with Jonathan I've moved the metadata to from extragear/network
> > to kde/kdeutils.
> >
> > I'm unsure about whether kdeconnect-android should move too or stay in
> > extragear. I assume the release tooling is not prepared for releases to
> > Google Play. We usually had separate releases for Android since we cannot
> > align the rollout anyway.
>
> Mobile apps in the release service is a good question though, I am interested
> in that for KDE Itinerary too.
>
> I think in general it would be very nice to have those includable as well,
> following a standardized branching and versioning model and the associated
> i18n workflows makes sense as much there as it does for desktop.
>
> If at all the difference is in the distribution channels I think. For Linux-
> based mobile distros there is probably very little difference as well. Android
> can be different though, seeing three possible channels there:
> (1) our self-hosted F-Droid repos, currently for debug nightly builds from
> master, but presumably we could have those as well for release builds from the
> stable branch?

The way we structure Android builds would probably need some
improvement from how we have it at the moment (which is starting to
head in the direction of being a bit messy) to support that, but yes
it is possible.

> (2) upstream F-Droid: for this we need actual releases, not binaries, quite
> similar to Linux distros
> (3) Play Store: would probably benefit from (1), if that produces packages we
> can (manually) upload there directly, without needing separate builds or
> signing infrastructure

>From my understanding the whole reason why the Binary Factory was
doing signing of builds was to allow for things like uploading to the
Play Store...

>
> Rollout to (2) and (3) does not necessarily be in sync with the release,
> that's also not the case for many other distributions.
>
> So from that perspective I don't see much against including mobile apps.
> However, do we need a way to clearly mark them as such to avoid them being
> distributed on desktop? For Android-only cases like kdeconnect-android that's
> a non-issue, but Kirigami-based mobile apps often build fine on desktop too,
> but might offer a sub-standard user experience there (certainly the case for
> KDE Itinerary).
>
> Regards,
> Volker

Cheers,
Ben