Kubuntu Automation 2.0 released

[José Manuel Santamaría Lema]

Hi,

after so many time working on Kubuntu Automation, I'm glad to announce the 
first 'proper' release. It's '2.0' because I would consider '1.0' the tooling 
we had before Operation Slice[1]. Packages for Artful, Zesty and Xenial are 
available in the dev-tools PPA: 
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ninjas/+archive/ubuntu/dev-tools

Some time ago we have seen the most disruptive change in Kubuntu's history: 
the transition from being maintained mostly by full-time paid employees to be 
maintained mostly by volunteers. Since then, we have been struggling to keep 
up with KDE software releases and the Kubuntu Automation tooling has been 
playing a key role (for good and bad things).

While the KA tooling is very far from being perfect, I think it has now a 
minimal set of features which are making this new stage of Kubuntu's history 
possible; having a bad tooling - like we had - would have made the maintenance 
of Kubuntu's packaging unfeasible in the long term.

I would like to say thank you to Rik, Clive, Simon, Walter and Darin, for 
their feedback, patches, contributions and for working so much on the 
packaging, which allowed me to spend more time doing several needed changes in 
Kubuntu Automation.

Cheers.

[1] https://phabricator.kde.org/w/kubuntu/black-operations/slice/