Administration guide

What's in the box?

season.kde.org offers full control to the administrators of the website. There is a big list of tools at your disposal as a site admin. Administrators can be identified by a badge on their user profile.

Admin ACL

The site admin ACL is maintained at KDE Identity (group name: season-admins). If you wish to be added to the group, please ask an existing SoC admin to send us a mail to [email protected].

Context based administration

As a site administrator, you will have access to the administration context menu across the website.

Items in this menu will change based on the page you are viewing. Specific scenarios has been discussed below in this document. For referential purposes, this contextual menu has been referred to as the Administration menu going forward.

Managing programs

You can create new programs, edit existing programs, delete programs and set them as inactive from the Administration ⇒ Manage programs module.

To create a new program, click on the Add new program button.
To edit a program, click on the from the list of programs.
To delete a program, click on the Delete button after opening the program editor from point 2 above.
To make a program active or inactive, set the Active checkbox accordingly from the program editor. A program should be marked as inactive outside its start and end dates.

Approving project proposals

You can approve proposals from the Administration ⇒ Approve proposals module. Simply click on the icon to approve or icon to reject a proposal. You can view the proposal details by clicking on its title.