[Kexi-devel] Calligra Maintainers - status updated - more applications about to be freezed

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

Ping! Is there anything to update for
https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Maintainers#Applications ?
Especially about Author and Karbon?

On 31 March 2015 at 09:42, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> Ping...
> Should the table
> https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Maintainers#Applications be
> updated?
>
> On 15 December 2014 at 13:04, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> While 2.9 Beta is out (congrats!), I am sending this to confirm we're
>> looking for new contributors and more contributions for our nice apps.
>>
>> A term of "freeze" has been coined and now more or less applies to
>> various apps: https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Maintainers.
>>
>> More strictly: "Proposed for freeze in 3.0 if no contributors join"
>>
>> * Carbon and Plan is known to be in this situation already.
>> * Calligra Author and Braindump were the new kids labeled as
>> experimental and are now in this group too.
>> * It's sad to admit Calligra Sheets and Stage also received close to
>> no contributions in recent releases so also are candidates to
>> freezing.
>>   This is serious thing as we're talking about core office applications.
>>
>> We at Calligra are about to spend so much energy on porting most
>> active apps to Qt 5 and KF 5 so new blood for the above apps is
>> clearly needed. You have still time to join now and we're here to help
>> you. Once the applications are frozen, it will become increasingly
>> more difficult.
>>
>> Please don't hesitate to ask in this thread or privately
>> (https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Contact), some apps are smaller,
>> some are bigger. Maintaining does not mean you have to add dozens of
>> new features. Applications just need to be in a shippable state for
>> every release. A few hours a week was sufficient for many Calligra
>> maintainers.
>>
>> This is a nice opportunity to join FOSS for real.
>>
>> PS: This post appeared as we want to be crystal clear when questions
>> such as this pop up:
>> https://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-9-beta-released/#comment-1218144
>> Don't be afraid, we're largely immune to sudden and ultimate
>> cancellation of releases of these apps. This is FOSS.
>> But this also means there are no "they" -- if you read this, you're
>> part of the project :)
>>
>> --
>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>
>> KDE:
>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>> Calligra Suite:
>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>> Kexi:
>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>
>
>
> --
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>
> KDE:
> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
> Calligra Suite:
> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
> Kexi:
> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
> Qt Certified Specialist:
> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek



-- 
regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

KDE:
: A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
: and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
Calligra Suite:
: A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
Kexi:
: A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
Qt Certified Specialist:
: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek