KDE inclusion

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Jan 11 18:24:37 GMT 2018


El dijous, 11 de gener de 2018, a les 12:15:15 CET, Kevin Funk va escriure:
> On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:06:36 CET Michael Reeves wrote:
> > I have a version of kdiff3 that I ported to kf5. I like to what build
> > requirements kf5 as a whole has. Also what would be the process for being
> > considered for inclusion in kde?
> 
> Heya,
> 
> Note: kdiff3 right now is hosted & developed on SourceForge.
> 
> I'd love to see kdiff3 being adopted by KDE again (it former was KDE
> extragear if I understood correctly). kdiff3 is a super useful tool -- and
> right now development has stalled a bit.
> 
> Talked to Joachim (the original author) a few weeks ago, where he stated he
> just doesn't have the time maintaining it anymore, really. I've CC'd Joachim
> so he can tell us whether he's okay with having kdiff3 developed further
> under the KDE umbrella.

I guess this is the most important question, if we can keep using the kdiff3 
name under's Joachim's blessing or we have to "fork it" and find a new name.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> I don't really know the process of having it integrated either. I'll leave
> that to others.
> 
> Kudos for doing the KF5 port!
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin






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