<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:34 PM Johannes Zarl-Zierl <<a href="mailto:johannes@zarl-zierl.at">johannes@zarl-zierl.at</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear Alex & Robin,<br>
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[Re-adding the list-address because there are people who know better than me <br>
there and to me it looks like the list was dropped by accident]<br>
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> Thank you for your enthusiastic and kind reply. You're right. With no plan<br>
> we meant that we haven't made up our minds for anything beyond fall 2021<br>
> due to the lack of a sustainable maintainer-ship model. That is something<br>
> which needs to be sorted out but at the moment we don't know how!<br>
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Thanks for clarifying.<br>
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> We have seen the incubator process which is on the webpage. How would this<br>
> work?<br>
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There are other people on this list that can probably explain better than me <br>
(and who have first-hand experience with the process), but I'll try to answer <br>
to the best of my knowledge:<br>
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> Would the Exiv2 project be required to transfer all the history of<br>
> git, issues, pull request etc. to a new location within the KDE environment<br>
> or could the project stay where it is at the moment?<br>
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Short answer: yes, you need to move. @sysadmin: Is the migration tool <br>
available on <a href="http://invent.kde.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">invent.kde.org</a>?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At this time we have not done the necessary setup to import repositories, their merge requests, tasks and other associated information from GitHub.com.</div><div>This shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, but would require some setup being done in advance of the import being executed.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Longer answer: If your project was not hosted on Github it would theoretically <br>
be possible to remain there, but not very practical.<br>
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To look at it from the positive side: only by moving to KDE infrastructure you <br>
can take full advantage of what KDE has to offer you.<br>
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I mean knowing that you have financial, organizational, and legal support from <br>
one of the bigger FLOSS communities is cool, but have you ever experienced a <br>
situation where:<br>
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* An international team of phenomenal translators take care of all your <br>
localization needs to the point it almost seems like magic?<br>
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* Community members actively triage bugs so that you don't have to deal with <br>
every duplicate bug report yourself?<br>
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* The CI not only builds your own software on multiple platforms but several <br>
projects that depend on it - so you get feedback if a change accidentally <br>
breaks downstream projects? (I hope I'm not overselling on this point)<br>
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> Could you elaborate a<br>
> bit on the process and what would be required from our end to be done? In<br>
> order to get the resources and plan the transition we would need to do some<br>
> forecasting on the work and plan it accordingly.<br>
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That's the part where I kindly refer you to more experienced people on this <br>
list who have sponsored an incubator project before.<br>
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> Regarding the applications for grants, that is something very interesting<br>
> but many of us have day-to-day jobs and the question would be if someone<br>
> would leave his job and step into this uncertainty. I don't know if someone<br>
> would do it or not. Mostly likely it would depend on the amount of money<br>
> and security etc.<br>
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Understandable. I just wanted to make sure that you are aware of the <br>
possibility.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Ben</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers,<br>
Johannes<br>
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