Calligra Maintainers - status updated - more applications about to be freezed

[Tomas Mecir]

Hey,

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.

Tomas

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