Bug 391755

Summary:	Improve knewstuff and store integration
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-knewstuff	Reporter:	Tsokar <legrain>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Tsokar 2018-03-12 14:44:14 UTC

As commented on https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/816hn3/get_hot_new_stuff_really_needs_some_kind_of/ , kNewStuff and store.kde are difficult to use because of outdated extensions.

It was pointed out that tracking compatibility was difficult because of the large amount of extensions.

Maybe it would be interesting to do something similar to wordpress: each extension can be declared to be compatible for a range of versions of wordpress.
This range of compatible versions can be based on the developers input, or on the users feedback.

Implementing this kind of mechanism could allow users to tag the extensions as compatible or not with specific kde versions.
Of course, developer's choices would superseed users reports up to the version he tagged.

I hope I was clear...
Thanks a lot for your work !

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-03-12 18:39:06 UTC

Thanks for the bug report! We are investigating this in https://phabricator.kde.org/T8126