Fellow openSUSE KDE users, I know that it hasn't been that long ago, that we changed the repository setup for the KDE projects on the openSUSE Build Service and you might wonder why we want to change again. The reason behind it is twofold. The first reason is that we would like to reduce the maintenance efforts for all KDE related packages and on the other hand we want to maximize the usability for our users to find updates and latest versions of their KDE desktop software and applications. The topic itself was also recently discussed on this mailinglist, with regards to missing application packages in the KDE:Release:411 repository. Currently we have the following repositories available: KDE:Distro:Factory : This repository is the development repo for the packages in openSUSE:Factory. Currently this contains applications and the KDE Desktop software. KDE:Unstable:SC: This repository contains frequent snapshots of the KDE Desktop software and a number of applications. KDE:Release:xy: These repository contains the latest minor release of the KDE Desktop software version X.Y. Some of the repositories contains also applications and system libraries required to build the KDE software KDE:Extra: Additional application software that is either KDE or Qt based. KDE:Unstable:Playground: git-snapshots, alpha's and/or beta versions of application software. KDE:UpdatedApps: This repository contains updated versions of application software that is build for older openSUSE releases As you might have noticed already, we have a lot of duplication when it comes to KDE applications. These are build in all kind of repositories and sometimes it is hard to find out which repository to use for which openSUSE or KDE desktop version. Therefore the openSUSE KDE community team would like to make the following proposal : KDE:Release:XY These repositories will contain the latest minor release of the KDE desktop version X.Y. When the repository is created, the build targets would be the current and previous openSUSE version. Maintenance updates for the current openSUSE version will be delivered from these repositories. The repository will only contain the KDE Desktop software and updates of system libraries if required to make it build. KDE:Extra: This repository will become our main application repository. All application software will be moved into this repository and it will be build for all supported KDE and openSUSE versions/combinations. This means that KDE:UpdatedApps is no longer required as that updated versions will be delivered through the KDE:Extra repository. Initially the target was to rename the repository to KDE:Apps, but keeping the old name would cause less confusion in our opinion. KDE:Unstable:Extra will be the repository where git snapshots, alphas and betas of application software can be found. This will replace KDE:Unstable:Playground and we will believe that KDE:Unstable:Apps is a more correct naming. Build targets would be the same as KDE:Extra KDE:Unstable:SC will be the repository where git snapshots of the upcoming KDE desktop version can be found. In this repository the openSUSE KDE Community team will also test different approaches, different KDE setup, etc. This repository will only be build against openSUSE:Factory. KDE:Distro:Factory will be the repository where the stable KDE Desktop release will be build for Factory. The stable release will be replaced by the Beta release for the upcoming release as soon as this one becomes available. This repository will be build only for openSUSE:Factory. As indicated this is just a proposal from our side and we would like to hear your feedback on it. If there are no major rejections against it, then we would like to start implementing it after openSUSE 13.1 RC has been released your openSUSE KDE Community team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org