From kde-core-devel  Tue Jan 07 18:49:54 2014
From: Kevin Ottens <ervin () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:49:54 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE Frameworks: Moving toward 5.0 final and Governance
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Hello,

On Tuesday 07 January 2014 18:10:10 John Layt wrote:
> On 6 January 2014 07:52, Kevin Ottens <ervin@kde.org> wrote:
> > I urge everyone, and in particular people volunteering to maintain =
a
> > framework, to do a pass of review of our code base and APIs to mode=
rnize
> > them when appropriate. It is a very big task, and in no way can be
> > coordinated in the way we've been working so far. Maintainers will =
be a
> > crucial part of a successful code quality review, which leads me to=
 the
> > governance...
> >=20
> > The current list of modules is there:
> > http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/List
> >=20
> > As you can see there's quite some holes in the table, and quite a f=
ew
> > entries marked unmaintained. KDE Frameworks as a set of technologie=
s will
> > only be taken seriously if we get something more complete there. I =
urge
> > everyone with an interest in KDE Frameworks to step up, look at tha=
t list
> > and volunteer to maintain a framework. If you volunteer, know that =
the
> > following will be>=20
> > expected from you:
> >  1) Complete in the table the information regarding your framework;=

> >  2) Do an API review and modernization pass in your framework (poss=
ibly
> >  with
> >=20
> > the help of others);
>=20
> I've put myself down (rather obviously) for KPrintUtils.

How surprising. :-)

> Most of the
> dialog code from there has been merged into Qt5.2, or is planned for
> Qt 5.3, so needs deleting.  I'm also wondering if we still need our
> own KPrintPreview dialog, there was a reason in 4.0 but I can't
> remember why now and I'm not sure it is still valid.  Alex Merry migh=
t
> remember, was it because QPrintPreview wasn't available at the time?
> We may not end up with much left here :-)

Well, the initial plan was to not have KPrintUtils at all. It's here ma=
inly=20
because of timing issues because the necessary upstream work to get eve=
rything=20
to disappear in KPrintUtils wasn't done in time for Qt 5.2.

> If the original author Petri Damst=E9n doesn't step up, I could take =
on
> KUnitConversion, seeing as I'm partly familiar with the code.

Then put your name in front with a note for Petri to kick you off if he=
 shows=20
up. :-)
I don't think we've been in touch with him yet.

Regards.
=2D-=20
K=E9vin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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