Re: Do we release SC or not?

2010/9/2 Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>

> On Wednesday 01 September 2010 22:35:01 Arthur Schiwon wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > On Tuesday 31 August 2010 20:27:59 Troy Unrau wrote:
> > > Hi, it's Troy here, aka the branding police...
> > >
> > > SC was never intended to be an externally marketed term. It was
> > > supposed to be something we can use to refer to the 'bunch of stuff
> > > that has in common this release engineering artifact where they happen
> > > to be simultaneously released'. What happened was that people simply
> > > read this as 'where-ever you see KDE, write KDE SC' - failure on our
> > > part.
> >
> > Please correct me, but the paragraph "The KDE Software Compilation" in
> the
> > rebranding announcement
> > (http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand) said:
> >
> > »The KDE community does regular releases of a core set of KDE software
> > products. These releases are called the KDE Software Compilation and
> tagged
> > with a version number, e.g. "The KDE community is releasing KDE Software
> > Compilation 4.4". «
>
> Ok:
> - "core set of KDE software products" - i.e. more than one, in fact they
> were
> listed in the section above in the article
> - "these releases are called the KDE Software Compilation" - also true, if
> you
> need a word for the whole lot
>
> The original intention (clear from the original proposal and also in the
> meeting where we fleshed all this out - but, it seems, not from the
> article)
> was to emphasise the products. But we recognised there *are* times when a
> group term (SC) is needed. Unfortunately, we didn't follow through the
> logic
> with the 4.4 releases and used SC in our announcement titles - although the
> announcement text did emphasise the products. For the 4.5 release day, we
> did
> separate announcements for each product group. For 4.5.1 we reverted
> (incorrectly) to the old formulation for the title.
>
> > To me it sounds like the term Software Compilation (or simply SC) should
> be
> > used in announcements and it is also the reason why we at kubuntu-de.org
> > also used SC from then on in our news articles.
>
> And no doubt followed what we were doing upstream using SC in the
> announcement
> titles...
>
> Taking your 4.5 announcement, I reckon these are ok:
>
> Kubuntu packages available for KDE's 4.5 releases
> Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.5 packaged for Kubuntu
>
> (I don't think you need to mention the Platform - do most of your readers
> care?)
>
> Or you could stick with your current formulation of referring to SC. It's
> technically correct and doesn't bother me particularly as long as the text
> explains that there are packages for the Plasma Workspaces, Applications
> and
> (if you like) Platform. I guess most Kubuntu users go mostly for KDE
> software
> anyway, so the everything together (SC) formulation is ok for them. What
> would
> be nice would be to get Ubuntu (i.e. GNOME focussed) press reporting the
> release of KDE Applications 4.5 - their users aren't going to care about
> the
> Plasma Desktop 4.5 but there are probably some KDE Applications they could
> use: Marble for example.
>
> Stu
>
>
>> What would be nice would be to get Ubuntu (i.e. GNOME focussed) press
reporting the
>> release of KDE Applications 4.5

KDE Apps can be used on Windows. So I have sent an email to Microsoft and
they are considering our idea of posting KDE-news on their website. ;-)

Could we start releasing Plasma + Applications AND Platform seperated? That
way the workload is more spread and we are in the news every 2,5 month ;-)

 
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