<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hey,<br><br></div>I can take Sheets maintainership again if the existing maintainer no longer wants it. Don't have time for anything big, sadly, but I should be able to keep it shippable, at the very least.<br><br></div>Tomas<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-12-15 13:04 GMT+01:00 Jaroslaw Staniek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:staniek@kde.org" target="_blank">staniek@kde.org</a>></span>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
While 2.9 Beta is out (congrats!), I am sending this to confirm we're<br>
looking for new contributors and more contributions for our nice apps.<br>
<br>
A term of "freeze" has been coined and now more or less applies to<br>
various apps: <a href="https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Maintainers" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Maintainers</a>.<br>
<br>
More strictly: "Proposed for freeze in 3.0 if no contributors join"<br>
<br>
* Carbon and Plan is known to be in this situation already.<br>
* Calligra Author and Braindump were the new kids labeled as<br>
experimental and are now in this group too.<br>
* It's sad to admit Calligra Sheets and Stage also received close to<br>
no contributions in recent releases so also are candidates to<br>
freezing.<br>
This is serious thing as we're talking about core office applications.<br>
<br>
We at Calligra are about to spend so much energy on porting most<br>
active apps to Qt 5 and KF 5 so new blood for the above apps is<br>
clearly needed. You have still time to join now and we're here to help<br>
you. Once the applications are frozen, it will become increasingly<br>
more difficult.<br>
<br>
Please don't hesitate to ask in this thread or privately<br>
(<a href="https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Contact" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Contact</a>), some apps are smaller,<br>
some are bigger. Maintaining does not mean you have to add dozens of<br>
new features. Applications just need to be in a shippable state for<br>
every release. A few hours a week was sufficient for many Calligra<br>
maintainers.<br>
<br>
This is a nice opportunity to join FOSS for real.<br>
<br>
PS: This post appeared as we want to be crystal clear when questions<br>
such as this pop up:<br>
<a href="https://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-9-beta-released/#comment-1218144" target="_blank">https://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-9-beta-released/#comment-1218144</a><br>
Don't be afraid, we're largely immune to sudden and ultimate<br>
cancellation of releases of these apps. This is FOSS.<br>
But this also means there are no "they" -- if you read this, you're<br>
part of the project :)<br>
<br>
--<br>
regards, Jaroslaw Staniek<br>
<br>
KDE:<br>
: A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators<br>
: and facilitators committed to Free Software development - <a href="http://kde.org" target="_blank">http://kde.org</a><br>
Calligra Suite:<br>
: A graphic art and office suite - <a href="http://calligra.org" target="_blank">http://calligra.org</a><br>
Kexi:<br>
: A visual database apps builder - <a href="http://calligra.org/kexi" target="_blank">http://calligra.org/kexi</a><br>
Qt Certified Specialist:<br>
: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek</a><br>
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