Incubator/Projects/Falkon

QupZilla

Sponsor: Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]>

QupZilla is a QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser.

During the Akademy 2017 Konqueror BoF it was proposed to replace the aging Konqueror with it instead of trying to revive it. This was ok'd by the Konqueror maintainer David Faure.

Team

• David Rosca <[email protected]> (Main developer and project maintainer)
• Mladen Pejaković <[email protected]> (webview context menu improvements, speed dial background)
• Alexander Samilov <[email protected]> (tab previews)
• Seyyed Razi Alavizadeh <[email protected]> (fixed UI for RTL languages)
• Franz Fellner <[email protected]> (new restore session ui)
• Bryan M Dunsmore <[email protected]> (opening background tabs, closing window when closing last tab)
• Mariusz Fik <[email protected]> (fixed tab order in preferences dialog)
• Daniele Cocca <[email protected]> (close tabs with middle click, initial work on speed dial)
• Giuseppe Calà <[email protected]> (fixed loading of bookmarklets)
• Adrien Vigneron <[email protected]> (new QupZilla logo)
• Elio Qoshi <[email protected]> (new QupZilla logo)

(taken from https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/blob/master/AUTHORS)

Manifesto Compliance Plan

Values

Open Governance

At the moment development/bugtracking/... happens on github:

https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla

The maintainer ok'd that this is moved over to KDE infrastructure during the incubation and the normal commit rights apply.

Free Software

GPL v3+

Inclusivity

No barrier known toward the contributors.

Innovation

Using state-of-the-art web rendering engine, providing a cross-platform browser. Nothing too innovative but something at the moment missing in the KDE Applications.

Common Ownership

All clear no known barrier, anyone can contribute directly.

End-User Focus

Web browser => clearly targeted to our normal userbase

Commitments

• Code of Conduct: supported
• Contributor License Agreement: none
• Established practices: CMake + Qt like most, code reviews except for most active core contributors
• Source materials hosted on our git infrastructure (in playground/edu)
• Online services, some are not on KDE infrastructure:
  • website (daily backup on KDE at [email protected]:backup)
  • wiki (daily backup on KDE at [email protected]:backup)
  • website source code (on GitHub, migration to KDE in progress)
  • mailing list (migrated to KDE)
  • voice assets (TODO need to migrate them on KDE subversion)
  • gcompris.net emails
  • source tarballs (TBD)
  • binaries for windows, mac, android (+ payment system)
  • KDE's bugzilla
• KDE Licensing policy: a few copyright headers missing, otherwise following it
• KDE branding guidelines: no reference to KDE yet
• No patents
• Agrees to transferring the GCompris brand in case of bus rampage :-)

Proposed actions:

• website + wiki + gcompris.net: should propose continuity plan to sysadmin (DONE)
• voice assets: should migrate to KDE infra
• source tarballs: should migrate to KDE infra
• binaries: to be discussed on kde-community again to finally answer if yes or no we're fine with hosting on KDE infra those binaries which have a code to unlock them fully
• Translations to be hooked to the KDE translation team (DONE)

Benefits

No brainer, already participating in Randa, posting on planet, etc.

Sponsor Checklists

Candidate ready

Status	Description	Notes
DONE	Project description
DONE	Project team
TO DO	Manifesto compliance plan		<{{{3}}}>

Incubating

Status	Description	Notes
TO DO	Repository and code available (in playground/edu)		<{{{3}}}>
TO DO	Mailing list available	Migration to KDE completed: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]	<{{{3}}}>
TO DO	Website available (if applicable)	Yes, on own infrastructure	<{{{3}}}>
TO DO	Active community	Push more use of the mailing list	<{{{3}}}>
TO DO	Manifesto compliance	...	<{{{3}}}>