Ping... Should the table https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Maintainers#Applications be updated?
On 15 December 2014 at 13:04, Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@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 _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
