Hi, Martin: I know that you are my dearest Danish KMid translator :) so I assume that you care enough about this application. My questions below are not addressed only to you. On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, Martin Schlander wrote:
Tirsdag den 6. april 2010 20:10:15 skrev Raymond Wooninck:
Maybe it would be worthwhile to think about a kind of acceptance cycle? Initially Beta's are put in the Playground repository and are available for people to try them out. If they feel that the application is stable enough for a broader audience, then this can be requested on this list. If the request is accepted, then the package can be moved to the KDE:KDE4:Community repo.
I'd maintain that this should only happen if: 1) there's no officially released, stable software providing the same functionality 2) the app provides functionality that can be said to be genuinely important
Both criteria can be more or less subjective, but the second one, "genuinely important", scares me a bit. How are you proposing to evaluate the importance of a package? If you only take into account the number of users, you may be alienating a minority liking (or neededing) the software. For instance, a package used only by disabled people may fail the majority criteria.
If those criteria are met, I think the package could be moved to kde4:community, after a few people have tried it out in playground and found it to be usable and fairly safe.
If the above criteria aren't met, I'd be against putting development versions in kde4:community no matter how stable.
So, you are proposing some kind of voting, or any other formal process in order to accept and remove packages from Community and Playground? Can you please elaborate your proposal? I am a bit worried by this thread, because I'm also confused about the matter. I'm the upstream maintainer of several applications and also a KDE/openSUSE/OBS user (home:plcl:kde4). I've been recently added to the KDE4:Community and KDE4:Playground repos. My applications at home:plcl:kde4 are MIDI-related. MIDI is a small niche market that nevertheless is important enough for some software manufacturers like Apple, but maybe not enough for openSUSE-KDE?. How do you think I should proceed? I've already added VMPK to KDE4:Community, and I would like to add KMid, KMidimon, KMetronome and Drumstick as well. Would you agree? Regards, Pedro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org