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Subject: Re: How to promote less mature Frameworks?
From: Kevin Ottens <ervin () kde ! org>
Date: 2014-08-19 7:33:07
Message-ID: 2886110.EMHW4pLJp1 () wintermute
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On Tuesday 19 August 2014 08:44:10 David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2014 12:51:58 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > And that's the problem if we release them. If it's released "with the
> > rest" expect people to have wrong expectations about them.
> >
> > A possibility would be perhaps to produce nightly tarballs for those
> > frameworks which don't have the "release: true" flag. This way they keep
> > not being part of a release, and early adopters have something easy to
> > grab.
>
> Wouldn't early adopters just checkout and build from git ?
Well, I guess some of them might just want to grab something and run with it.
Maybe not the majority indeed...
> I don't know about you, but I almost never download a source tarball,
> because a git checkout is just so much easier to update later.
> We mostly make tarballs for packagers, and the non-mature frameworks we're
> talking about should definitely NOT be packaged.
Agreed.
> IMHO the solution is just to publicize the upcoming frameworks somewhere.
Which shouldn't be that hard, it's "only" about processing the yaml file and
creating a page listing them. I think that's what makes most sense indeed.
Regards.
--
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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