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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Move Joxy to the KDE Playground?
From:       Thom Castermans <thom.castermans () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-08-23 12:08:42
Message-ID: CACpGtSZU9QAbsCjYxMqeMuWWJDXj2fssW9v93S9tdeb2wXXmvA () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi Sebas,

2013/8/23 Sebastian K=FCgler <sebas@kde.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday, August 23, 2013 11:51:10 Thom Castermans wrote:
>> Quite some time ago, we sent a mail [1] on this list to ask for your
>> opinion about Joxy [2]. Joxy is a Java look-and-feel that aims to have
>> nice-looking integration with the Oxygen theme, the default under KDE.
>> Stimulated by the positive responses, we kept working on Joxy whenever
>> we had time (which is not as much as we would like, unfortunately).
>> Now, recently we migrated to a Maven structure (currently, this is
>> still in a separate branch, but we plan on merging it into main soon)
>> and we feel like Joxy is finally becoming a decent project. It was
>> suggested [3] on our forum that Joxy can become a KDE project and we
>> think that would be a good step. We hope that other people want to
>> contribute to Joxy too - there are still a lot of things to improve -
>> and being on KDE Playground would help in that matter we think.
>>
>> So basically, we would like to ask if it is possible to move Joxy
>> under the KDE umbrella (Playground?) and if so, if there is some kind
>> of procedure that we should follow or if there are some requirements
>> that we should meet. For example, the KDE website [4] notes that "The
>> KDE Playground group is defined as those applications built on the KDE
>> Development Platform that are hosted by the KDE infrastructure but
>> have not yet had a stable release and may never be released." However,
>> Joxy is built in Java (and a bit of C++) and hence not on the KDE
>> Development Platform: would that be a problem? We look forward to hear
>> from you!
>
> No, the build dependencies or technology doesn't matter. To get Joxy unde=
r teh
> KDE umbrella, you need to agree and follow the manifesto at
> http://manifesto.kde.org/

Thanks for the quick answer. I'm reading through the manifesto and all
policies and code of conduct right now and will discuss it with
Willem, but I'm fairly certain that we do agree with everything.

> If you do, I don't think there's anything in the way of getting Joxy "into
> KDE". This page should help you get going with that:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_Contributor_Account

And thanks for this link too, we will look into this later!

> Cheers,
> --
> sebas
>
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