Exiv2 project submission to the KDE community

[alexander.esseling@googlemail.com]

Dear Ben & Johannes,
Thanks for your replies! In our current situation it would definitely be
helpful and much appreciated if there would be a tool available supporting
the move into the KDE environment.  As there is notimmediate need to move
everything to the KDE community, we would be more than happy if you would
take the time you need to set up the required infrastructure. Once this
topic has been resolved, Robin & I can discuss with the team who will be
supporting this move. Currently, we are working with full steam towards the
next release of Exiv2 (v.027.4).
Kind regards,
Alex & Robin

On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 08:06, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:34 PM Johannes Zarl-Zierl <johannes at zarl-zierl.at>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Alex & Robin,
>>
>> [Re-adding the list-address because there are people who know better than
>> me
>> there and to me it looks like the list was dropped by accident]
>>
>> > Thank you for your enthusiastic and kind reply. You're right. With no
>> plan
>> > we meant that we haven't made up our minds for anything beyond fall 2021
>> > due to the lack of a sustainable maintainer-ship model. That is
>> something
>> > which needs to be sorted out but at the moment we don't know how!
>>
>> Thanks for clarifying.
>>
>> > We have seen the incubator process which is on the webpage. How would
>> this
>> > work?
>>
>> There are other people on this list that can probably explain better than
>> me
>> (and who have first-hand experience with the process), but I'll try to
>> answer
>> to the best of my knowledge:
>>
>> > Would the Exiv2 project be required to transfer all the history of
>> > git, issues, pull request etc. to a new location within the KDE
>> environment
>> > or could the project stay where it is at the moment?
>>
>> Short answer: yes, you need to move. @sysadmin: Is the migration tool
>> available on invent.kde.org?
>>
>
> At this time we have not done the necessary setup to import repositories,
> their merge requests, tasks and other associated information from
> GitHub.com.
> This shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, but would require some setup
> being done in advance of the import being executed.
>
>
>>
>> Longer answer: If your project was not hosted on Github it would
>> theoretically
>> be possible to remain there, but not very practical.
>>
>> To look at it from the positive side: only by moving to KDE
>> infrastructure you
>> can take full advantage of what KDE has to offer you.
>>
>> I mean knowing that you have financial, organizational, and legal support
>> from
>> one of the bigger FLOSS communities is cool, but have you ever
>> experienced a
>> situation where:
>>
>> * An international team of phenomenal translators take care of all your
>> localization needs to the point it almost seems like magic?
>>
>> * Community members actively triage bugs so that you don't have to deal
>> with
>> every duplicate bug report yourself?
>>
>> * The CI not only builds your own software on multiple platforms but
>> several
>> projects that depend on it - so you get feedback if a change accidentally
>> breaks downstream projects? (I hope I'm not overselling on this point)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Could you elaborate a
>> > bit on the process and what would be required from our end to be done?
>> In
>> > order to get the resources and plan the transition we would need to do
>> some
>> > forecasting on the work and plan it accordingly.
>>
>> That's the part where I kindly refer you to more experienced people on
>> this
>> list who have sponsored an incubator project before.
>>
>> > Regarding the applications for grants, that is something very
>> interesting
>> > but many of us have day-to-day jobs and the question would be if someone
>> > would leave his job and step into this uncertainty. I don't know if
>> someone
>> > would do it or not. Mostly likely it would depend on the amount of money
>> > and security etc.
>>
>> Understandable. I just wanted to make sure that you are aware of the
>> possibility.
>>
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>
>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Johannes
>>
>>
>>
>>
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