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 <stan...@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 <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 -- 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
