Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (249 mails)

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, Karsten König wrote:
> Yeah voting isn't a good idea as there aren't many people around judging
> every piece of software. But the proponent should give reasons why to move
> it to :Community in case there is no proper release.
>
> If you are the maintainer of the software and can call a software
> reasonably stable why not make a release out of it and move that into the
> :Community repo? That needs no discussion and is what that repository is
> for. 

What is a proper release for you? all my applications at home:plcl:kde4 have 
been released and publicly announced. There are freshmeat.net and 
opendesktop.org pages for them.

I have the intention of adding the packages to the Community repo, yes. Unless 
somebody provides arguments against that.

> Btw. I also think we had the kde3 versions of these in opensuse, so 
> your midi apps should actually migrate into Factory

There was a kmid package for kde3 in openSUSE, when kmid was part of 
kdemultimedia. Now, it belongs to extragear/multimedia. I agree with the 
migration into Factory, but it is beyond me. It can only be done by a small 
number of people with permissions in the project KDE4:Factory:Desktop.

The other applications have *never* been part of openSUSE. Some of them are 
available in other distros, though. KMidimon is available in Debian and 
Ubuntu since a long time ago, when it was a KDE3 application. Also for  
Fedora, distributed by Planet CCRMA at home. VMPK is available in  
Debian/Ubuntu, and also in Mandriva Cooker. 

So, there may be a main mission of the KDE4:Community repository for me:  
providing Qt/KDE applications that can be potentially valuable for some 
users, and are neglected in the official openSUSE repositories. This goal 
requires that KDE4:Community is offered in Yast. Maybe the packages aren't 
well known, so there is a secondary mission: advertise those programs among 
the public and people that has power to push them into the official 
repositories.

Regards,
Pedro
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