T4893 asks for an edition rename. Along that we need to revise the website design.
Previously we had User Edition which targeted users and Developer Editions that target KDE contributors. In the new world order we'll have:
- User Edition targeting users
- User Edition LTS which we arguably should not be marketing at all as it conflicts with the idea of neon and ultimately the quality of the product as no dev uses it.
- Testing Edition targeting tech savvy users who can repair their system as well as contributors that wish to use pre-release software from stable branches (i.e. betas, and maintenance updates before they get released)
- Unstable Edition targeting the very brave who can repair their system and want to live on the very edge of development from-git without any guarantees of quality whatsoever (primarily contributors)
- Developer Edition targeting third party developers who want to write code with KDE frameworks or for KDE frameworks or using KDE code writing tools (e.g. KDevelop)
As a result the website needs changes to communicate this. User Edition continues to be the primary thing we need to push. Developer Edition is the primary thing we should pitch to actual developers who want to write code. Testing and Unstable Editions we want to offer but inform people that this can and will break and is dangerous and should absolutely not be used if one doesn't know how to recover a broken system.
The original plan never was properly implemented, so here's a chance to do it right. Testing and Unstable should be on a page that employs different (dark) colors from the default to hint that this crap is different and scary. Developer Edition probably could be pitched alongside regular User Edition as it would simply be User Edition with a full developer toolchain pre-installed.
We currently only have one download page which kinda complicates the Testing and Unstable separation. @jensreuterberg some low effort mockup drawings or something would be good to have so we know how to twiddle the website.
We'll also need to write new flavor text for the new Developer Edition and potentially revise the old flavor text for the new names of Testing and Unstable
