Exiv2 project submission to the KDE community

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:23 PM alexander.esseling at googlemail.com <
alexander.esseling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Ben & Johannes,
>

Hi Alex,


> 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).
>

No worries.
If you could please file a Sysadmin ticket at https://go.kde.org/systickets
then we can certainly look at getting the proper importer setup for you.


>
> Kind regards,
> Alex & Robin
>

Cheers,
Ben


>
> 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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