KDE Frameworks soon 5 years old

[Dominik Haumann]

KF 5.58 was just released. Strictly speaking 5.59 is the 5-years release
(due to 5.0 being the first one).

Is it still on the agenda to have some news for 5.59 or 5.60?

The task is still pretty empty:
https://phabricator.kde.org/T10607

Best regards
Dominik

Ivana Isadora Devcic <skadinna at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 13. März 2019,
03:30:

> Hi Dominik,
>
> thank you for sharing this information!
>
> A Dot story sounds like a great idea. Maybe we can come up with something
> even more exciting - there's still enough time until July. For example, the
> Onboarding goal could nicely fit into the picture, if we can highlight all
> the opportunities and benefits that Frameworks can provide to new
> contributors (basically, if we can show how Frameworks make it easier to
> start contributing or developing your own apps).
>
> I've created a ticket for this on the Promo board:
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T10607
>
> This should help us keep track of the task. We can also use the ticket to
> collect more ideas for promoting the Frameworks anniversary.
>
> Please feel free to add your comments and suggestions to the ticket.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards,
> Ivana Isadora
> KDE Promo
>
> Den sön 10 mars 2019 kl 22:11 skrev Dominik Haumann <dhaumann at kde.org>:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> the first release of KDE Frameworks was version 5.0, released on 7th of
>> July, 2014 [0], [1]. Since then, the KDE Frameworks libraries were released
>> every month as scheduled on time [2], growing from initially ~60 libraries
>> to over 70 well maintained libraries.
>>
>> Soon, KDE Frameworks will turn 5 years old with its 5.60th release,
>> likely happening in July 2019 (will be the 61th release).
>>
>> Is there anyone who wants to prepare a .dot story and maybe even get in
>> contact with the Qt marketing to celebrate this a bit?
>>
>> What comes to my mind:
>> - KDE Frameworks is a set of well-maintained crossplatform C++ libraries
>> that extend Qt
>> - KDE Frameworks libraries can often be used standalone without any (or
>> only a few) dependencies, such as KArchive or KSyntaxHighlighting
>> - KDE Frameworks are well-tested [3] and documented [4]
>> - Transparent licensing
>> - KSyntaxHighlighting is used in Qt Creator [5]
>>
>> What I wrote here is obviously not yet a nice dot story :-)
>> Any takers?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Dominik
>>
>> [0]
>> https://dot.kde.org/2014/07/07/kde-frameworks-5-makes-kde-software-more-accessible-all-qt-developers
>> [1] https://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.0.php
>> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Frameworks#Release_history
>> [3] https://build.kde.org/job/Frameworks/
>> [4] https://api.kde.org/frameworks/index.html
>> [5] https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/02/21/qt-creator-4-9-beta-released/
>>
>
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