Re: As Google Code-in ends, time to plan for Google Summer of Code

2017-01-19 Thread Lays Rodrigues
Well, I can only speak about my experience. The page https://community.kde.org/GSoC is good, and I think that is a good start. When I submitted my proposal las year at Umbrello, I did start to get to know Umbrello code before it. And get to know the code is, for me, a required step to get accepted

Re: As Google Code-in ends, time to plan for Google Summer of Code

2017-01-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > I've just finished preparing the new Ideas page for 2017: > https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas > > It is basically the same as every other year, and has no previous > ideas on it. If you or your project plan to present a former ide

Draft Policy: Dependency Changes and CI

2017-01-19 Thread Eike Hein
Hi devs, this month, a heated exchange on kde-core-devel about a dep change breaking CI has moved us to draft a new policy to better handle situations like this in the future. While not "law", the policy _strongly_ suggests some guidelines forming a quid-pro-pro protocol between developers and s