Final thoughts/votes on Kubuntu Policy

[Philip Muskovac]

On Tuesday 05 August 2014 18:14:57 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Update done, +1 from me.  So that's me and Rohan.  Other council members
> want to vote?
> 
> Jonathan

Sure, I'm fine with the changes and I'm +1 for the policy.

> 
> 
> 
> 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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