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

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Monday 15 Dec 2014 14:01:03 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Montag, 15. Dezember 2014, 13:04:53 schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek:
> > 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.
> 
> I at least plan to do the porting for
> * Stage
> * Plan
> * Karbon (perhaps)
> 
> Plan I have given a little bit of love before already, so while not a real
> maintainer I still try to keep it alive as it is (because it is not rotten
> and works nicely for some), e.g. did some bugfixing for 2.8.7. Well, could
> be called maintainer then, really.
> 
> Stage has my interest from ODF point of view, I really would like some
> Qt/KF- based modules for ODP. And Stage itself is also used inside Calligra
> Gemini, so Leinir surely also will do some care/enhancement bits there. So
> perhaps both of us could become maintainers there?

  For what it's worth, i would be fine with that situation, yeah :)

> Karbon I am not sure yet, given Flow is so close to it in functionality (and
> wasn't there the plan to merge them?). But you might remember, I miss my
> Corel Draw, and Karbon is what could fill that gap... so at least tempted
> to also push it to a qt5/kf5-world instance if time is there (actually,
> given that SVG-loading is screwed up currently in flake-based apps, I might
> even have to look into Karbon-related code, as I like to use SVG-objects in
> my documents)
> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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