KDE integration/status for Workstation

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
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>> Subject: Re: KDE integration/status for Workstation
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>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com>
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>> > On 03/04/2014 09:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> >> This with my Personal Opinion hat on, not representing QA:
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>> >> I'm not sure all/most people who actually want to use Fedora KDE
>> >> are likely to be sold on doing it by downloading what they will see
>> >> as 'GNOME', installing that, and then installing KDE on top of it.
>> >> I think this will be fine for some folks, but there'll be a
>> >> significant constituency which just wants a KDE image.
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>> >> In fact we might be creating a bit of a problem, because I can see
>> >> both "want KDE as an alternative desktop on top of the Workstation
>> >> product" and "just want Fedora KDE" as two entirely legitimate and
>> >> viable constituencies, which sort of means we've just created a
>> >> bunch of extra work for ourselves. I'm not sure I see a clever
>> >> magical solution to that, though. Engage brain cells...
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>> > I'd suggest that for the Fedora Workstation, we declare that KDE is
>> > release-blocking *as an optional component atop the Workstation*.
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>> Please explain this further.  Having an optional component be release
>> blocking is making my head hurt.
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>> josh
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> At the risk of misrepresenting Stephen I think what he means, and what I agree
> with is that we declare that KDE is blocking as in 'it should work' before we do
> a given release, but it is optional to install for the end user.

OK, right.  That's essentially what I was suggesting with the testing
steps I initially threw out there.  At least Matthias seems to think
we shouldn't block in this manner, so it seems we have some discussion
to do within the WG.

josh