Become part of KDE apps?

eszlari commented 11 months ago

TuxClocker isn't available and thus not easily installable on most Linux distribution at the moment.

One way to solve this problem could be to become part of a bigger umbrella project. Since TuxClocker uses Qt it seems that the KDE project would be a good fit.

https://community.kde.org/Incubator

Lurkki14 commented 11 months ago

It's up to distros to package the software, and being a part of KDE doesn't change that. Sure, it might get more visibility but there's other ways to get that. If TuxClocker isn't packaged on your distro you should ask the distro to do so.

eszlari commented 11 months ago

It's up to distros to package the software, and being a part of KDE doesn't change that.

If TuxClocker became part of the official KDE Gear collection, every distro that provides KDE would package it.

But there are also other advantages:

CI (test build server, static analysis, packaging, automatic release management)
translation system with a lot of contributors & languages
other KDE develpers help with porting to newer Qt APIs
KWin contributors know about kernel APIs, it's likely they would provide patches
bus factor > 1

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