On Friday, 7 July 2017 14:29:07 CEST Steven Haigh wrote: > On Friday, 7 July 2017 4:25:54 AM AEST Matthew Miller wrote: > > Hey everyone. We're going to have a hard time keeping KDE a > > release-blocking spin if the QA team doesn't get more active help from KDE > > SIG folks. > > With the recent discussion about lack of testing etc and the state of the > KDE live boot, I would like to propose a set of changes to simplify the > live image as we start thinking about F27. > > The idea is to strip the current bloat to give a more manageable Live Image > - while keeping in mind that after you install to HDD, you can install any > package you like. > > Proposal #1: > We currently ship 3 browsers in the Live image: > * Firefox > * Konqueror > * Qupzilla > > I propose that we strip all out except Konqueror. IMHO, Konqueror is the KDE > browser - and should feature on the KDE Spin live image. It allows us to > keep a simple target of *ONE* working browser that has to meet the blocker > requirements. I'm not goin to touch this for now, but: > > Proposal #2: > We currently ship 2 'package managers' (3 if you count PackageKit). > > I propose we drop kde-discover - and keep dnfdragora (and PackageKit) in the > live image. > > Proposal #3: > We currently ship 3 image programs in the live image. Okular & Gwenview as > viewers, Kolourpaint as an editor. > > I propose we drop Gwenview and keep Okular and Kolourpaint in the image. > At most we should remove Kolourpaint, if any, but... > > On the same note, are there any other obvious duplication in functionality > that we should look to streamline for the F27 release? > > We probably still need work on automated testing to at least meet the basics > of the QA process - ie make sure at least all the apps launch - but I feel > the streamline is more important to give us a better target. The only thing that I agree is that we need more automation for the testing. The main question here is: which applications are problematic and lead to their testing to be at the end of the process? -- Luigi _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
