[kde-community] The KDE Incubator needs YOU

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey Kevin,
>
> Nobody else stepped up so I will. I read through the different phases
> in the wiki and wonder what a starting kit would look like. I'll read
> through the other notes you mentioned and linked to the community page
> and see what I can do to help this along. It would be great to help
> these groups/projects mentioned in the BoF notes transition to being
> part of KDE indeed.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hello community,
>>
>> This year during Akademy I announced the idea to create an incubator for
>> projects joining our community. We also had a BoF on the topic to collect
>> opinions and ideas from people.
>>
>> Now fast forward a couple of months, some work has been done toward putting
>> such an incubator into place. The current state is available on our wiki:
>> http://community.kde.org/Incubator
>>
>> Unfortunately it's going much slower than needed, and it's even slowing down.
>> It's time for me to realize that I might not be the right person to put that
>> into place. It is clear I failed at giving enough energy to this work.
>>
>> That's why I'm announcing that I'm stepping down from that work. I still think
>> the idea is sound so I'd love to put it in better hands. If like me, you think
>> the incubator idea is important and you can devote some time and energy to it,
>> I urge you to step up to push it forward and get it active.
>>
>> I don't think much more is missing apart from preparing a starting kit for new
>> projects, communicating around it, and contacting potential projects. Indeed,
>> even slow, some work happened. On the wiki there is a draft process, and all
>> the notes collected during the BoF and while looking at other incubators. The
>> process might need some more work of course but I think it's getting
>> somewhere.
>>
>> So, who's up for the challenge?
>>
>> Regards.
>> --
>> Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

It's good to hear that this project is going forward. When Kdenlive
was considering their move to KDE, a group of us gathered some
information to help them in the process. Perhaps there is a bit of
useful information in there still:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uHqlLOpDXTLEHm_38Ht6JsgQEcW1eRcpQJF2Do2diNA/edit?usp=sharing

Having read the summation in the wiki, I doubt this doc will be useful
in full, since years have passed since then. But of course, use
whatever you find useful, Jeremy.

Valorie
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