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Revision as of 18:52, 15 January 2025

Promote KDE Desktop variant to Edition

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

This Change is about promoting the Fedora KDE Desktop Spin to the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition.

Owner


Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora Linux 42
  • Last updated: 2025-01-15
  • [<link to devel-announce post will be added by Wrangler> Announced]
  • [<will be assigned by the Wrangler> Discussion thread]
  • FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
  • Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
  • Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

As approved by Fedora Council, this promotes the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop variant to full Edition status.

As the variant is already release-blocking, this is principally a change for adjusting how the KDE Desktop variant is presented and promoted.

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

This makes Fedora stand out among the major Linux distributions by promoting the KDE Plasma Desktop as a flagship experience and signals a strong commitment to the KDE community by rewarding the current success of the Fedora KDE community and supporting its continued growth.

Scope

  • Proposal owners:
    • Split KDE Desktop variant out of Spins section in pungi-fedora
    • Work with websites team to introduce KDE Plasma Desktop Edition information on the main site
    • Bring online initial Personal Systems WG documentation site
  • Other developers: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Trademark approval: Done.
  • Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: Yes
    • This aligns with broadening our success with Editions (Fedora.next) and establishing a story around Fedora KDE to market more broadly.

Upgrade/compatibility impact

None. This is principally a marketing change.

How To Test

Nothing to test as this is principally a marketing change.

User Experience

The main change will be the Fedora website showing the KDE Plasma Desktop Edition alongside Workstation and others.

Dependencies

N/A.


Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: Defer to next release
  • Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
  • Blocks release? Yes


Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

Fedora Linux 42 promotes the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop variant to full Edition status.

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