Bringing Cantata under the KDE umbrella?

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 13:16:24 GMT 2023


On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 7:18 AM Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 12:28 AM Heiko Becker <heiko.becker at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday, 19 February 2023 23:36:22 CET, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > El diumenge, 19 de febrer de 2023, a les 16:29:24 (CET), Heiko Becker va
> > > escriure:
> > >> Cantata is a Qt based MPD client, which was archived by its
> > >> original author
> > >> [1]. I started some porting to Qt6 but I wondered (and was asked in
> > >> #kde-devel today) if it would make sense to move it to KDE's
> > >> infrastructure? Despite being archived, it still works quite
> > >> nicely. And ...
> > >
> > > My only 2 concerns are:
> > >
> > >  * Is anyone going to work on it? I guess you?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Part of the incubation process is to gather what's the team working on it.
> https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/DescriptionTemplate
>
> It feels wrong to incubate a project that is already out of
> development. Especially when we already have a number of music
> players...
>

It's not without precedent though, didn't it happen with NeoChat,
which forked from Spectral?



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