[kde-community] Should we allow non-KDE projects to participate in GSoC under KDE?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

I don't even remember what I thought the last couple of times, but I
think it was something like this:

"if these are projects that we can likely bring under our umbrella, yes,
we should, if that is not going to happen, then we shouldn't"

I cannot imagine I ever thought something different, but it's possible,
and I remember someone telling me I was inconsistent, last year.


On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Martin Klapetek wrote:

> Hey,
> so in the couple previous years we have collectively and
> repeatedly rejected the idea of other projects, that are not
> KDE projects by the Manifesto, to participate in KDE GSoC.
> Namely we rejected Tupi and SubSurface solely because
> "not a KDE project", GCompris became a KDE project and
> then we let it participate.
> 
> Last year we got a non-KDE project in our GSoC despite the
> previous years decisions, nobody really noticed and then there
> was a huge discussion if that's ok or not, but by that time it was
> a bit late.
> 
> So I'd like to have this cleared - does the community agree to
> have non-KDE projects, those that do not follow the Manifesto,
> participate in our GSoC this year and in the following years?
> 
> Imho this goes against the Manifesto as the projects gets to
> "enjoy the benefits" without the complying with "commitments"
> of the Manifesto. It's also less transparent overall (not able to
> monitor progress as it's not on KDE infrastructure), can lead
> to cheating and possibly kicking KDE out of GSoC in the worst
> possible outcome.
> 
> On the other hand, every accepted project gets the mentoring
> organization some extra money, which is always handy.
> 
> Cheers
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
> 
>

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org