Infrastructure

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KDE software is hosted on infrastructure managed by the KDE Sysadmins. If needed, a ticket can be opened on https://go.kde.org/systickets (or http://sysadmin.kde.org/tickets).

Identity Accounts

Every accounts in the KDE infrastructure are synchronized in a same system. It is called KDE Identity.

Version Control

Git
The KDE projects are mostly using Git. The repositories can be browsed online via our web interface.
Find our guidelines and informations about the Github mirror.
SVN
Some projects such as i18n (to localize the programs) or some websites still use SVN. The repository can be browsed on https://websvn.kde.org/. Some guidelines could be found here.
Commit access
Find out how to get commit access.

Content distribution

In order to distribute and spread the software and other data produced by the community, KDE uses mainly two distribution networks.

Code quality

Before pushing code to the repositories, the community has to review it.

Reviews
The current used system is Phabricator. However projects are heavily encouraged to move to the new system: .

Before introduction of Phabricator in 2015, the main review tool used to be Review Board.

Project Management
Projects are now managed with Phabricator.
Continuous Building - Jenkins
To ensure high-quality, KDE software operates a continuous integration system, namely Jenkins.
English Breakfast Network - Static Analysis
Krazy - Code Analysis, Usage Tutorial
APIDOX - API Documentation Statistics
Sanitizer - DocBook Checker
Usability Checks

Community communication

Blogging
KDE Developers are encouraged to blog about their actions. More information about blogging here.
Emails
KDE provides email aliases in @kdemail.net and @kde.org.
Communication channels
Several communication channels are maintained by KDE:
- IRC
- Mailing Lists
- Jabber

Documentation

API documentation
https://api.kde.org, where the kapidox documention can be found.
Techbase
https://techbase.kde.org, where the public libraries and scripting utilities are documented to be reused by external developers

Localization

Project Metadata

Misc