Reviving lightdm-kde-greeter upstream

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:06 AM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El dimarts, 28 de novembre de 2023, a les 11:25:42 (CET), Ben Cooksley va
> escriure:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 9:51 PM Anton Golubev <golubevan at altlinux.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On 11/25/23 02:14, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > Since you don't seem to be a KDE devel just yet this would probably
> have
> > >
> > > to go
> > >
> > > > through the https://community.kde.org/Incubator program.
> > >
> > > The instructions on the link say that I need to create a new project on
> > > invent.kde.org, but it already exists[3]? what should I do? (A quick
> > > search on the list did not yield any examples)
> >
> > This is the first time that the revival of a project that has been
> archived
> > on invent.kde.org has taken place, so we're in new territory.
> > The whole point of archival of these projects though is to allow for them
> > to be restored later on.
> >
> > To proceed here, we first will need to get you a developer account - this
> > can be handled under the Incubator program, so you'll need everything
> that
> > goes along with that.
> >
> > From there, we can reinstate the unmaintained project and transfer it to
> an
> > appropriate namespace (likely Plasma given this is a workspace component,
> > and would be consistent given the SDDM KCM lives there as well).
>
> Not sure if Plasma would make sense here unless the Plasma team actually
> wants
> it, since AFAIU everything under Plasma gets released on Plasma releases,
> which may not be what is wanted here.
>

There are definitely repositories under Plasma that the Plasma team doesn't
release.

The group Plasma on invent more refers to our Workspace products, which a
LightDM greeter would fall into the realm of.
Unless someone has a better idea of where to put it?


> Anyhow, do we have someone that wants to help Incubate this?
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>

Cheers,
Ben


>
> > That will have to be done by a Sysadmin so please file a ticket once you
> > have a developer account. That will also allow us to facilitate catching
> up
> > the original KDE repository with the subsequent contributions that
> happened
> > in your Gitlab.com repository.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben
> >
> > > > [1]: https://git.altlinux.org/gears/l/lightdm-kde-greeter.git
> > > > [2]: https://gitlab.com/golubevan/lightdm-kde-greeter
> > > > [3]: https://invent.kde.org/unmaintained/lightd
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