KDevelop Maintainership

Hamish Rodda rodda at kde.org
Mon Sep 8 10:24:00 UTC 2008


Hi,

On Monday 08 September 2008 20:08:34 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 20.08.08 14:17:14, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > Obviously, I haven't had a whole lot of time to contribute to KDevelop
> > lately and so I'm removing myself from the maintainer role and
> > recommending that the group as a whole take over maintainership of the
> > various parts of KDevelop, which is basically what's been happening
> > for the last 6+ months anyways.
>
> I've refrained from answering to this thread until now because I
> couldn't really make up my mind.
>
> First of all: Thanks Matt for your previous spare time and effort to
> keep KDevelop alive and pull a really great KDevelop3.4 release back
> then. I'd also like to thank you to literally push me into this project,
> its been a great experience so far and got to meet quite some cool
> people from all over the world :)
>
> Now Aleix already proposed that I could be the new maintainer and I've
> finally decided that I may be able to actually do that. Unfortunately
> neither Amilcar nor Alexander (Dymo) have the time to do that job for
> KDevelop4. I hope Amilcar can keep up with KDevelop3 as I'm going to
> spend less time on that now that I started to use KDevelop4 even for my
> every-day-job.
>
> So unless somebody has objections, I'm going to apply for
> release-coordinator for the kdevplatform and kdevelop module's. This
> basically means that I'm the single-point-of-contact for anything
> release-related. I don't think that part is going to be a lot different
> from now as I already do most of the things (see
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Release_Team#Functions). I still want
> us as a group to do the important decisions, release-schedule,
> feature-list for a specific release and also to decide on the
> longer-term-future of KDevelop4. However I reserve the "last word" on
> any decision that we can't reach a concensus on or at least find a
> majority for one side of the discussion.
>
> So what do you guys think?

I'm happy with you being maintainer :) I was also considering it, but I'm 
happy to be focusing on development instead :)

BTW, I think we really should release a beta any day now... perhaps once the 
class browser sees a bit of attention.

Cheers,
Hamish.




More information about the KDevelop-devel mailing list