Final thoughts/votes on Kubuntu Policy

[Jonathan Riddell]

Update done, +1 from me.  So that's me and Rohan.  Other council members
want to vote?

Jonathan



On 26 July 2014 10:50, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> >
> > Read it over again, looks great, some comments..
> >
> >  "Software that is not managed on KDE's infrastructure is considered
> unrelated to KDE. "
> >  "Official KDE software is generally every piece of software that has an
> official VCS on KDE's infrastructure and/or uses KDE's bug tracker. "
> > KDE software is software that complies with the KDE manifesto, not
> necessarily on KDE's own infrastructure.
> >
> >  "A bug is considered to have high impact if... AND upstream is aware
> and investigating "
> > Sometimes upstream won't care as it's a released version or it doesn't
> affect their distro, I think this bug requirement should be losened
> >
> >  "Election Process ((TBD)) "
> > should say that it's ~kubuntu-members who vote on council members
> >
> >  "This is limited to the packages inside the kubuntu package set. "
> > link to package set list?
> >
> >  "Existing ~kubuntu-members member, survive an interview by
> ~kubuntu-dev, get accepted by >= 3 existing developers."
> > saying nothing about the 50 members who disapproved, should say a
> majority in favour
> >
> >  "Stable Updates ... KDE SC"
> > this section will need to be reviewed and
> > updated for KF5 land including in the first case KDE Applications
> > which are due to replace KDE SC before the end of this year and
> > includes kdelibs4 software as well as KF5 software.  A job for later,
> but not too much later.
> >
> > One question is how does all this apply to Qt?  It's packaged by some
> > nice people working for Canonical and they generally work nicely with
> > Debian and upstream and we don't want to scare/piss them off, but they
> > can be lax at sending patches upstream.  I think they should be asked
> > how much they feel able to comply to these policies.
> >
> > I can go ahead and make these changes if people agree.
> >
> > Jonathan
>
> Since there is no disagreement, (speak up if there is) please carry on
> Jonathan. We should get this published before we need to edit it to
> account for KF5, Plasma 5 & KDE Applications.
>
> Valorie
>
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