Kubuntu Automation 2.0 released

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:39 PM, José Manuel Santamaría Lema
<panfaust at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after so many time working on Kubuntu Automation, I'm glad to announce the
> first 'proper' release. It's '2.0' because I would consider '1.0' the tooling
> we had before Operation Slice[1]. Packages for Artful, Zesty and Xenial are
> available in the dev-tools PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools

Hiya.

Thanks for all your work on this, Santa. It's nice to see it paying
off now, big-time! I have a question about the PPA mentioned on the
above link. Is this an "everything and the kitchen sink" type PPA for
testing now? Or to be used in advance of moving the packages to
-testing and -landing and then to updates and/or backports?

> Some time ago we have seen the most disruptive change in Kubuntu's history:
> the transition from being maintained mostly by full-time paid employees to be
> maintained mostly by volunteers. Since then, we have been struggling to keep
> up with KDE software releases and the Kubuntu Automation tooling has been
> playing a key role (for good and bad things).
>
> While the KA tooling is very far from being perfect, I think it has now a
> minimal set of features which are making this new stage of Kubuntu's history
> possible; having a bad tooling - like we had - would have made the maintenance
> of Kubuntu's packaging unfeasible in the long term.
>
> I would like to say thank you to Rik, Clive, Simon, Walter and Darin, for
> their feedback, patches, contributions and for working so much on the
> packaging, which allowed me to spend more time doing several needed changes in
> Kubuntu Automation.
>
> Cheers.
>
> [1] https://phabricator.kde.org/w/kubuntu/black-operations/slice/

It has been a difficult transition. I'm happy that those who left the
Kubuntu team are still friendly and helping out when needed, for the
most part. And I'm very happy to see the growing cooperation between
us and Debian and neon. The more we share and automate our work, the
better the quality and most important -- the more fun we have!

Also, Alpha 1 is happening in a few weeks, so this is super timely. :-)

Valorie

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