Re: KDE-Plasma on Rawhide: A proposal

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On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 15:44 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Adam Williamson
> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 21:38 +0100, GERHARD GOETZHABER wrote:
> > > I think many folks working with Rawhide like KDE same-same me. However,
> > > all of us know very well the last steps of KDE development haven't only
> > > missed getting together with Fedora but with many Linux distributions at
> > > all: Neon images and nightlies of Kubuntu go crashing as well - so no
> > > wonder my today's try to set up the brand new Rawhide on Plasma failed
> > > miserably.
> > > 
> > > What about offering two KDE install options in Anaconda: One with some
> > > known stable version, let's say 5.8.5, and one for the last build? The
> > > older one with the optional possibility to later update it from a well
> > > established system, of course.
> > > 
> > > Another remark: As I've reported several times Ksysguard (may be simply
> > > too old software and not renewed by KDE maintainers in time) will deny
> > > showing resource graphs from kernel 4.9 on completely - no matter which
> > > distro. However, I discovered an excellent substitute in Gkrellm
> > > prettily operating on each desktop environment: I can warmly recommend
> > > it to everyone!
> > > 
> > > In passing (as an advice if everything seems to fall flat): My Rawhide
> > > on Xfce has been working well since many weeks ... : )
> > 
> > I don't think we have enough maintainers to maintain parallel versions
> > of the entire Plasma stack.
> 
> In the bright and shiny future, there may be a way to achieve this
> with modularity, and flatpaking the DE.

Well, I mean, sure, but that doesn't magically remove all the necessary
*work* :) I think Kevin and Rex are rather swamped just trying to keep
one version per release working.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
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