[KDE-India] Formation of the KDE Technical Working Group in Progress

[Atul Chitnis]

I'd like to see KDE.IN folks getting involved in things like this.

Atul

The first Technical Working Group for KDE is now being formed, with 
elections due over the next few weeks. The Group will help the hundreds of 
KDE contributors come to technical decisions and smooth processes such as 
major releases. It will also provide technical guidance to KDE 
contributors. Seven members of the KDE e.V. will be elected for an initial 
six months. After this period the Group will be evaluated, and if it 
proves successful elections will take place once every year. All members 
of the KDE e.V. are invited to take part in the election. If you are a 
contributor to KDE and you would like to take part in the decision making 
process, you are welcome to apply for membership. Further details can be 
found in the Technical Working Group's charter. Read on for a little more 
background.

The formation of the Working Groups had been decided on at the recent 
membership council held at aKademy 2005 last August in Malaga. The details 
of the Working Group formation were worked out during an open meeting. The 
Technical Working Group will be the second Working Group to be announced, 
after the Marketing Working Group was formed in November 2005.

The purpose of the Technical Working Group is to define and execute the 
official software releases of KDE, to provide guidance on technical 
decisions and to make sure that the Open Source development process is 
being maintained. The responsibilities of the Technical Working Group 
include release management, guiding the decision making process about 
external and inter-module dependencies, KDE-wide technical infrastructure 
and technical guidance. All decisions will be made in the spirit of the 
Open Source development process and will be well-documented. Furthermore, 
the TWG will coordinate actions amongst people acting as KDE 
representatives, and function as a representative itself. The Technical 
Working Group will involve the KDE community in the decision making 
process at all times. Discussions will generally be held on the relevent 
mailing list, usually kde-core-devel.

http://dot.kde.org/1137180087/


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