When it comes to timing, guess such a rename is best done after July 7, 2022: 22.04.3 release and before July 14 2022: 22.08 Freeze and Beta (22.07.80) tag & release. So that the 22.08 tarballs are named folloiwing the new name right from the beta one.

I.e. in the next 7 days (after tomorrow). So please have your mind made up soonish? :)

Probably doesn't matter much, but if there is no respin (which seems like a reasonable bet) it could happen even now.

+1 to the change

There's some adaptation in the release scripts and translation structure needed, but nothing insurmountable.

I have no opinion on the change.

Sysadmin wise this should not be a problem, however it would probably be good that this change is widely advertised.

Okay, so seems at least on first thought that should be an okay move, and thus we can get rid of the misnomer now with the MR also merged.

With 22.04.3 now out and no respin to expect, could you please execute the rename on next occasion, @bcooksley ?

I would care for adapting the metainfo.xml file and the referenced screenshot afterwards.

it would probably be good that this change is widely advertised.

Of which target groups are you thinking here exactly?

Thanks, Ben, and everyone for discussion.

@aacid @heikobecker Can you please add a note to the 22.08 tarball release announcements about the repo/tarball name change? Hm, actually I would have thought there might be some "new/removed" section for each KDE Gear main release, where this would be fitting, but could not find that, did I look at the wrong places? At least I saw such "Added/Removed" section in the KF announcements.

E.g. I would propose/ask to mention this in the "KDE Gear 22.08 Beta packages available for packagers" email, as I see at least distribution packagers as main target group to make aware here, so they do not have to find things out themselves.

And I just noticed there is also sdk/kdesdk-kioslaves which might need the same treatment, will see to prepare things code-side this late afternoon with a MR for WorkerBase.

@aacid @heikobecker Can you please add a note to the 22.08 tarball release announcements about the repo/tarball name change? Hm, actually I would have thought there might be some "new/removed" section for each KDE Gear main release, where this would be fitting, but could not find that, did I look at the wrong places? At least I saw such "Added/Removed" section in the KF announcements.

We mentioned it in the release notes, which are linked in the announcements and I just created a page for 22.08: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Gear/22.08_Release_notes

Ah, must have failed to click the very link to the very release notes then (and actually was sure I had seen such lists also for KDE Gear).
Good then, thanks (and just got one +1 on this being what packagers like to see, so all happy from my side here).

I've adapted scripty to handle this:

• trunk (current master): renamed the directory and the _desktop_ file (which is linked to the repository name)
• current stable branch (still tracking Gear 22.04): disabled the extraction https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/l10n-scripty/commit/3c672a22d6e9280362db2ee46847159ae54e25e3 The change doesn't affect that branch, and next week we will branch Gear 22.08, so those files will be saved and go away.

I'd like to point out that the metainfo file inside the repository still refers to the old name: it is safe to rename it, or would it break anything?

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Thanks.

I'd like to point out that the metainfo file inside the repository still refers to the old name: it is safe to rename it, or would it break anything?

Good to be reminded in any case, but can happily report that https://invent.kde.org/network/kio-zeroconf/-/merge_requests/3 is up to care for that :)