<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div>Hello all,<div><br></div><div>First of all, thank you for your sustained contributions and participation in the VDG team in 2020. It was rough year, to say the least, yet our team remained strong. We are proud of your participation and insight. We are happy to see that there is willingness to do good even in the midst of all the bad.</div><div><br></div><div>We recently received feedback on our merge requests approvals process, and how non-standard they seem to be across our development process in the VDG. It is important to think critically of our ability to process merge requests and make decisions on their acceptance and implementation. This calls for further review from our team.</div><div><br></div><div>We will hold our monthly VDG meeting on 15 January, 2021 at 15:00 UTC.</div><div><br></div><div>This meeting will be directed at brainstorming, proposing and filtering ideas about how the VDG should approach its merge requests approval process. We humbly ask for your participation. If you have a good idea on how to manage this process, please reply to this email and we can include it in our agenda for the meeting. You can also reach out to our team members through Telegram at <a href="https://t.me/vdgmainroom">https://t.me/vdgmainroom</a> .</div><div><br></div><div>This is an important meeting by all accounts. It will signal to the public our desire to have clear guidelines for managing our development output. It can also bring confidence to new developers looking to contribute to the project and could potentially attract new development. For our long time contributors, it will streamline their development output. For the larger KDE project, it will also bring a more predictable process for new features and polish for the overall system.</div><div><br></div><div>Please reserve the time to attend, we will be happy to hear from you.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the link:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://meet.kde.org/b/and-ttd-fuz">https://meet.kde.org/b/and-ttd-fuz</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you again!</div><div><br></div><div>Andy (anditosan)</div></body></html>