*Pulls up a chair* We need to have a talk. The way things are proceeding currently in regards to how you (the Plasma folks) work with the rest of us is severely and fundamentally broken. Which means we need to fix it.
Lets start with development practices. Over the past few weeks, there have been at least two instances where things have been unbuildable, for several days, and have only been fixed after i've essentially hunted down the responsible developers. One instance is currently outstanding. In one case code was introduced which depended on a new version than was allowed. The other case was a failure to update the dependency metadata. Some might say these issues are minor. Apart from the fact they're in Frameworks which means they have repercussions on everyone else who develops software using KDE Technology. The fact they've also been ignored for *days* is also not great either. Now on to communication. As above I mentioned developers were ignoring, or otherwise failing to take action on, notices that these breakages were present in the above. Not cool!! We also had an issue recently where a project which had asked to be incubated nearly ended up slipping through the cracks, had I not pinged a Sysadmin ticket they had opened earlier about the whole thing. Given one of the things we want to improve is new contributor onboarding, this isn't a good look. Do you have any ideas on how we might fix this? Regards, Ben Cooksley KDE Sysadmin
