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Subject: Re: [kde-community] Should we allow non-KDE projects to participate in GSoC under KDE?
From: Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date: 2016-02-04 6:41:36
Message-ID: 1552253.L0g2DzFvgY () martin-desktop
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On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 2:58:54 PM CET Martin Klapetek wrote:
> Hey,
>
> so in the couple previous years we have collectively and
> repeatedly rejected the idea of other projects, that are not
> KDE projects by the Manifesto, to participate in KDE GSoC.
> Namely we rejected Tupi and SubSurface solely because
> "not a KDE project", GCompris became a KDE project and
> then we let it participate.
>
> Last year we got a non-KDE project in our GSoC despite the
> previous years decisions, nobody really noticed and then there
> was a huge discussion if that's ok or not, but by that time it was
> a bit late.
>
> So I'd like to have this cleared - does the community agree to
> have non-KDE projects, those that do not follow the Manifesto,
> participate in our GSoC this year and in the following years?
>
> Imho this goes against the Manifesto as the projects gets to
> "enjoy the benefits" without the complying with "commitments"
> of the Manifesto.
I'm not sure whether it's against the manifesto. Is that really a "benefit"
that we do some admin work for them? One could also see it as an outreach to
projects: hey look, we can do that much for you, don't you want to join, then
you get also mentioned on the dot...
> It's also less transparent overall (not able to
> monitor progress as it's not on KDE infrastructure), can lead
> to cheating and possibly kicking KDE out of GSoC in the worst
> possible outcome.
Agree on that point. Also if we go for allowing we need to have clear rules in
place to evaluate who goes in and who doesn't.
Cheers
Martin
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