KMess move to KDE Extragear

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 27 February 2009 7:33:51 am Dario Freddi wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> after a quick discussion the KMess team decided to request to move to KDE 
> extragear after the release of 2.0 stable version. For those of you who don't 
> know what KMess is, www.kmess.org .
> 
> Apart from asking for authorization, I am asking some more questions:
> 
>  - KMess svn history is worth 4000+ commits. Is it a problem to copy it all or 
> should I do a plain single revision commit?

We definitely want to keep the entire history, if possible.
Ask sysadmin@ how to go about this.

>  - KMess has a bugtracker on http://trac.kmess.org, and we favour for keeping 
> it instead of using KDE bugzilla.

I guess that's ok.  I can't remember a policy against it.
Just make sure all your help docs, about dialogs, etc. refer to trac.

>  - There are already a lot of translations that should be imported
> 
Shouldn't be a problem.  Importing translations is part of the moving process.
Probably talk to Albert, the l10n-kde4 coordinator , if you have special needs.

> If all of this is ok with you, we'll make the move upon stable release, that 
> won't probably happen in less than 1-2 months.
> 
FYI. To move an application into extragear you must follow the procedures
found in http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/SVN_Guidelines

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