KDE Core/Platform 11
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Purpose of the Sprint
To examine the current state and near future of the KDE Platform (kdelibs and kdebase-runtime), particularly as it relates to the growing usage of it in new contexts such as mobile or on Windows and MacOS and its traditional usage as a set of conveniences and consistency creators for KDE application development.
The sprint will aim to create an actionable, multi-year roadmap for kdelibs and kdebase-runtime and will examine issues of modularity, topicality and the inherent dichotomy between the KDE Platform as an application development framework (similar to Qt) and as a stand-alone platform to target (similar to, e.g. Windows, MacOS, etc.)
Participants
This sprint will aim to bring together developers who contribute to the KDE Platform directly, who use it in sophisticated applications, packagers of it and those involved in setting similar policies for Qt.
The proposed break down of attendees:
- 12-15 kdelibs and kdebase-runtime commiters
- 3-5 KDE application developers
- 2-3 packagers
- 1-2 people from the KDE Release Team
- 1-2 Qt representatives
making for a total of 19-27 people.
If you would like to attend, please record your name below. Date organization will occur at a later point.
| Name | Role / Work | Arrival | Depart | Est. Cost | Need Sponsor? | Need Hotel? | Food Req. | Airport | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Seigo | [email protected] | Meeting facilitation, libplasma | yes | yes | vegetarian | |||||
| John Layt | [email protected] | KLocale & co | yes | yes | ||||||
| Marijn Kruisselbrink | [email protected] | kdelibs mobile, meego packaging, koffice | yes | yes | vegetarian | |||||
| Jeremy Whiting | [email protected] | knewstuff, accessibility | yes | yes | any | |||||
| Thiago Macieira | [email protected] | Qt, used to work in kdelibs | no | no | any | |||||
| Andreas Hartmetz | [email protected] | kdelibs - mostly KIO and some kdeui | yes | yes | yes | |||||
| Kevin Ottens | [email protected] | KDE Platform+Frameworks modularity, interaction with Qt | yes | yes | no seafood | |||||
| David Faure | [email protected] | kdelibs, interaction with Qt | no | yes | MRS/LYS | |||||
| Artur Souza | [email protected] | KDE UI/Core + QML/JS | yes | yes | any | |||||
| Dario Freddi | [email protected] | Authorization Framework, Solid, Possibly all things KCM* | yes | yes | any | LIN/BGY/MXP | ||||
| Alexander Neundorf | [email protected] | buildsystem (kdesupport +kdelibs +kdepimlibs +kdebaselibs) modularization | yes | yes | any | |||||
| Raphael Kubo da Costa | [email protected] | Mostly kdecore and kio. KDE/Qt on FreeBSD. | yes | yes | any | |||||
| George Kiagiadakis | [email protected] | drkonqi, small contributions to kdelibs, debian packaging | yes | yes | any | |||||
| Olivier Goffart (not sure) | [email protected] | Qt, former kdelibs contributor (port to Qt4, knotify) | maybe | maybe | 2500 kcal/day | |||||
| Till Adam | [email protected] | kdepim, kdelibs, KDE/Mac, KDE/Windows, KDE/Maemo, KDE/WinCE, KDE/MeeGo | if you don't want it eaten, don't keep it around me | |||||||
| Sebastian Kügler | [email protected] | release team | probably | probably | omnivore | AMS | ||||
| Frederik Gladhorn | [email protected] | Qt, knewstuff | maybe | probably | any | Oslo | ||||
| Albert Astals Cid | [email protected] | l10n, misc | yes | yes | almost any | Dublin | ||||
| Sune Vuorela | [email protected] | Packaging and weirdness | most likely | most likely | yes | cph; prefers train. | ||||
| Stephen Kelly | [email protected] | kdelibs, modularisation, Qt interfacing | Anything but sushi | |||||||
| Volker Krause | [email protected] | kdepimlibs, kdepim, KDE on MeeGo/Maemo5/WinCE | yes | anything | TXL/SXF | |||||
| Ivan Čukić | [email protected] | libplasma, activities | yes | yes | anything | |||||
| Teo Mrnjavac | [email protected] | Social desktop | yes please | yes | vegan | coming by car | ||||
| Marco Martin | [email protected] | libplasma, mobile profiles, activities | yes | yes | anything | |||||
| Cornelius Schumacher | [email protected] | Used to work on kdelibs, kdebase-runtime, and KDE PIM, these days mostly 3rd party applications. Would love to pitch the idea of merging Qt and the KDE platform to this group to trigger some productive discussion and some out-of-the box thinking | maybe | yes | any | |||||
| Valentin Rusu | [email protected] | Authorization Framework, KCM* | yes | yes | any | coming by car from Lyon | ||||
| Helio Castro | [email protected] | KDE Platform, integration, mobile | no | yes | any | FLN |
Topics
Note: these are simply sample topics, not final direction on what will actually be discussed. Actual topics will be generated at a pre-sprint meeting online as well as through group authorship of this section.
Modularization of KDE libraries
Alex: should IMO include not only kdelibs, but also kdesupport, kdepimlibs and kdebase libs
Framework vs Platform
Redundancies
KLocale & co vs QLocale & co: How to act local everywhere while retaining configurability.
Build Profiles
Build system
What level modularity do we want/need here ? Chances of CMake becoming the buildsystem for Qt.
QML and Javascript
Logistics
Dates
June 1/2 - 6/7
Location
Randa, Switzerland