This page contains documentation and discussion about KTechLab joining KDE.

Why to join

• integrate with bigger community
• http://manifesto.kde.org/index.html
• http://manifesto.kde.org/benefits.html

Commitments for joining

list taken from KDE manifesto ( http://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html ):

The KDE Project designation carries with it certain commitments:

• Support the KDE Code of Conduct

• There is no mandatory Contributor License Agreement

• Technical requirements

  • The project stays true to established practices common to similar KDE projects
  • All source materials are hosted on infrastructure available to and writable by all KDE contributor accounts
  • Online services associated with the project are either hosted on KDE infrastructure or have an action plan that ensures continuity which is approved by the KDE system administration team

• Copyrights, trademarks and patents

  • KDE licensing policy are respected
  • KDE branding guidelines are respected
  • If the authors of the software abandon it or disappear, they agree to transfer the trademark to the next maintainer
  • If the code is covered by patents registered by the project itself, those patents must be licensed freely

TODOs

• read joining procedure: https://community.kde.org/Incubator
• read https://techbase.kde.org/Policies
  • moved here: https://community.kde.org/Policies
• source hosting migration related:
  • ktechlab project needs:
    • git repository: clone this: https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab.git
    • gollum wiki: clone this: https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab.wiki.git
    • mailing list
      • prefer to have a plan for backing up sf.net list
    • downloads page
      • prefer to have a plan for backing up the sf.net downloads pages; from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ktechlab/files/
    • issue tracker on sf.net: https://sourceforge.net/p/ktechlab/_list/tickets
    • issue tracker on github: https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab/issues
  • copying to KDE infrastructure should be trivial
• read http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
  • licensing to for all source code should be verified; there might be some missing author references
  • KTechLab is GPL v2, v3 or later
• KDE branding guidelines -- figure out what does it mean
• write statement about "If the authors of the software abandon it or disappear, they agree to transfer the trademark to the next maintainer"

DONE

• read http://www.kde.org/code-of-conduct/
  • all reasonable here
• There is no mandatory Contributor License Agreement
  • this is the case
• "Online services associated with the project are either hosted on KDE infrastructure or have an action plan that ensures continuity which is approved by the KDE system administration team"
  • no services used by the application; for source code, see hosting migration
• "If the code is covered by patents registered by the project itself, those patents must be licensed freely"
  • no patents, AFAIK