<div dir="auto"><div>Hi David,<br><br>not necessarily, but given your involvement I am sure you could comment on</div><div dir="auto">- what are the strength of the KDE Frameworks</div><div dir="auto">- what is the advantage compared to the previous kdelibs</div><div dir="auto">- where is KF5 used? Also outside KDE?</div><div dir="auto">- how will a transition to Qt6 look like? Smoothly or big break?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Greetings</div><div dir="auto">Dominik</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">David Faure <<a href="mailto:faure@kde.org">faure@kde.org</a>> schrieb am Mi., 15. Mai 2019, 11:58:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Dominik,<br>
<br>
I like the idea but I'm no good at such things, I hope you were not counting <br>
on me to write something up :-)<br>
<br>
CC'ing kde-promo, hoping there are people willing to do this.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
David.<br>
<br>
On mercredi 15 mai 2019 05:57:59 CEST Dominik Haumann wrote:<br>
> KF 5.58 was just released. Strictly speaking 5.59 is the 5-years release<br>
> (due to 5.0 being the first one).<br>
> <br>
> Is it still on the agenda to have some news for 5.59 or 5.60?<br>
> <br>
> The task is still pretty empty:<br>
> <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T10607" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/T10607</a><br>
> <br>
> Best regards<br>
> Dominik<br>
> <br>
> Ivana Isadora Devcic <<a href="mailto:skadinna@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">skadinna@gmail.com</a>> schrieb am Mi., 13. März 2019,<br>
> <br>
> 03:30:<br>
> > Hi Dominik,<br>
> > <br>
> > thank you for sharing this information!<br>
> > <br>
> > A Dot story sounds like a great idea. Maybe we can come up with something<br>
> > even more exciting - there's still enough time until July. For example,<br>
> > the<br>
> > Onboarding goal could nicely fit into the picture, if we can highlight all<br>
> > the opportunities and benefits that Frameworks can provide to new<br>
> > contributors (basically, if we can show how Frameworks make it easier to<br>
> > start contributing or developing your own apps).<br>
> > <br>
> > I've created a ticket for this on the Promo board:<br>
> > <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T10607" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/T10607</a><br>
> > <br>
> > This should help us keep track of the task. We can also use the ticket to<br>
> > collect more ideas for promoting the Frameworks anniversary.<br>
> > <br>
> > Please feel free to add your comments and suggestions to the ticket.<br>
> > <br>
> > Thanks!<br>
> > <br>
> > Best regards,<br>
> > Ivana Isadora<br>
> > KDE Promo<br>
> > <br>
> > Den sön 10 mars 2019 kl 22:11 skrev Dominik Haumann <<a href="mailto:dhaumann@kde.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dhaumann@kde.org</a>>:<br>
> >> Hi everyone,<br>
> >> <br>
> >> the first release of KDE Frameworks was version 5.0, released on 7th of<br>
> >> July, 2014 [0], [1]. Since then, the KDE Frameworks libraries were<br>
> >> released<br>
> >> every month as scheduled on time [2], growing from initially ~60<br>
> >> libraries<br>
> >> to over 70 well maintained libraries.<br>
> >> <br>
> >> Soon, KDE Frameworks will turn 5 years old with its 5.60th release,<br>
> >> likely happening in July 2019 (will be the 61th release).<br>
> >> <br>
> >> Is there anyone who wants to prepare a .dot story and maybe even get in<br>
> >> contact with the Qt marketing to celebrate this a bit?<br>
> >> <br>
> >> What comes to my mind:<br>
> >> - KDE Frameworks is a set of well-maintained crossplatform C++ libraries<br>
> >> that extend Qt<br>
> >> - KDE Frameworks libraries can often be used standalone without any (or<br>
> >> only a few) dependencies, such as KArchive or KSyntaxHighlighting<br>
> >> - KDE Frameworks are well-tested [3] and documented [4]<br>
> >> - Transparent licensing<br>
> >> - KSyntaxHighlighting is used in Qt Creator [5]<br>
> >> <br>
> >> What I wrote here is obviously not yet a nice dot story :-)<br>
> >> Any takers?<br>
> >> <br>
> >> Best regards<br>
> >> Dominik<br>
> >> <br>
> >> [0]<br>
> >> <a href="https://dot.kde.org/2014/07/07/kde-frameworks-5-makes-kde-software-more-a" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dot.kde.org/2014/07/07/kde-frameworks-5-makes-kde-software-more-a</a><br>
> >> ccessible-all-qt-developers [1]<br>
> >> <a href="https://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.0.php" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.0.php</a><br>
> >> [2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Frameworks#Release_history" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Frameworks#Release_history</a><br>
> >> [3] <a href="https://build.kde.org/job/Frameworks/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://build.kde.org/job/Frameworks/</a><br>
> >> [4] <a href="https://api.kde.org/frameworks/index.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://api.kde.org/frameworks/index.html</a><br>
> >> [5] <a href="https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/02/21/qt-creator-4-9-beta-released/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/02/21/qt-creator-4-9-beta-released/</a><br>
<br>
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-- <br>
David Faure, <a href="mailto:faure@kde.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">faure@kde.org</a>, <a href="http://www.davidfaure.fr" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.davidfaure.fr</a><br>
Working on KDE Frameworks 5<br>
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