From kde-core-devel Tue Jan 30 21:05:16 2024 From: Ingo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:05:16 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: What can we expect from our developers Message-Id: <1970588.yKVeVyVuyW () daneel> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=170664865313492 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--nextPart2139976.OBFZWjSADL" --nextPart2139976.OBFZWjSADL Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; protected-headers="v1" From: Ingo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= To: kde-core-devel@kde.org Subject: Re: What can we expect from our developers Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:05:16 +0100 Message-ID: <1970588.yKVeVyVuyW@daneel> In-Reply-To: <10069105.tdPhlSkOF2@klux> References: <10069105.tdPhlSkOF2@klux> MIME-Version: 1.0 On Dienstag, 30. Januar 2024 21:47:51 CET Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > I think I understand where you are coming from, that all the work on > software done here makes the more sense the more users there are. IMHO > though reaching more users of Free Software should be done in ways and for > platforms which are not giving more power to monopolists or those which > seem set to become some. Flatpak, Snap, Windows, macOS... they are all > about binaries. There is no simple way, part of the concept, to get the > sources, patch something to one's likes and then regenerate the very same > package, just as custom one. Or is there? Yes, there is. They can simply use our infrastructure for this. We are doing much more than just providing the sources. We provide the fully functional CI/ CD machinery for building custom versions (minus digital signatures which we reserve for our official release artifacts). Regards, Ingo --nextPart2139976.OBFZWjSADL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQTbjgIOMowwlCBgvyGxb1mVFkdKugUCZblkjAAKCRCxb1mVFkdK umCsAP0U08L36PU1O72K4g54dE7iVq0vYCpvDCKQX67NO3CoZAEAtBr/D+8fRZYz RKgwPcEYogPXwpyUFJgNgX65cR77uQs= =Q7So -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2139976.OBFZWjSADL--