From panfaust at gmail.com Sun Jun 17 21:29:22 2018 From: panfaust at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Manuel_Santamar=EDa?= Lema) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:29:22 +0200 Subject: Kubuntu Automation 2.2 rc 1 released + some things to do for 2.3 Message-ID: <2202482.nxfR6qLBNh@malvo> Hi, the first release candidate of Kubuntu Automation 2.2 is now available in the dev-tools-testing PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools-testing/ This version provides just a few bugfixes, including a couple of glitches we had experienced during our last KDE Frameworks Debian merges. If we don't find any additional urgent bugs I would like to release this version as the final stable 2.2 release the next week or so. == Future plans == For the next 2.3 version, among other things, I would like to start to rework the code a bit following an OOP design (note that the code we have now was written in a hurry to deal with our urgent packaging issues, so it wasn't properly designed). I also would like to have the documentation in a more reader-friendly format than plain text files. I really had a hard time in the past trying to make the docs understandable. To achieve this, as an experiment, I have ported our current documentation (README, INSTALL, README.hacking) to Sphinx. IMHO it looks very nice. I'm attaching some screenshots. To build this documentation, you can checkout the "2.3" branch, enter the 'doc' directory and type 'make'; this will produce the HTML docs in 'doc/ build/'. Oh, and it also supports manpages which would be available both as HTML and man. Cheers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: gbp-ppa_stub_manpage_2.png Type: image/png Size: 122289 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: gbp-ppa_stub_manpage.png Type: image/png Size: 114592 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ka_doc_2.3_index.png Type: image/png Size: 155592 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ka_doc_2.3_new_release.png Type: image/png Size: 156401 bytes Desc: not available URL: From panfaust at gmail.com Sat Jun 23 20:26:26 2018 From: panfaust at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Manuel_Santamar=EDa?= Lema) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:26:26 +0200 Subject: Kubuntu Automation 2.2 released Message-ID: <3896788.h1noPTovsW@malvo> Hi, Kubuntu Automation 2.2 was released today: === PPA's status === KA 2.2 packages are available in the stable PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools KA 2.3 alphas and betas will be available in the dev-tools-testing PPA, right now it already has 2.3 alpha 1 which provides a nicer HTML documentation (available in /usr/share/doc/kubuntu-automation/html/): https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools-testing Right now we are still providing 2.2 packages for xenial, artful, bionic and cosmic. However if you are still using xenial or artful, please consider to upgrade ;) KA 2.3 alpha 1 packages are only available for bionic and cosmic. === Git/Development status === KA 2.1 branch becomes right now officially deprecated, unsupported, ugly and despicable. So, right now, the current active branches in git are: - 2.2: meant to do 2.2.x future bugfix releases (if any) - 2.3: development version, improved documentation, code refactoring - emerald_lake: based on 2.3, aims to improve Qt support - 3.0: extremely experimental, it would be used to add KCI support - master: points to 2.3, current development version Probably emerald_lake will be merged into 2.3 at some point in the future. That depends on the maturity of the code developed there. === Thanks! === As always thank you very much to the rest of the team for working so much in the packaging and everything else. I appreciate very much all that work because it allows me to focus more on improving the tooling. Keep up that good work ;) Cheers.