KDE Frameworks soon 5 years old

[David Faure]

Hi Dominik,

I like the idea but I'm no good at such things, I hope you were not counting 
on me to write something up :-)

CC'ing kde-promo, hoping there are people willing to do this.

Cheers,
David.

On mercredi 15 mai 2019 05:57:59 CEST Dominik Haumann wrote:
> 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-a
> >> ccessible-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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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5