On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:23 PM [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Ben & Johannes, > Hi Alex, > Thanks for your replies! In our current situation it would definitely be > helpful and much appreciated if there would be a tool available supporting > the move into the KDE environment. As there is notimmediate need to move > everything to the KDE community, we would be more than happy if you would > take the time you need to set up the required infrastructure. Once this > topic has been resolved, Robin & I can discuss with the team who will be > supporting this move. Currently, we are working with full steam towards the > next release of Exiv2 (v.027.4). > No worries. If you could please file a Sysadmin ticket at https://go.kde.org/systickets then we can certainly look at getting the proper importer setup for you. > > Kind regards, > Alex & Robin > Cheers, Ben > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 08:06, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:34 PM Johannes Zarl-Zierl < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Alex & Robin, >>> >>> [Re-adding the list-address because there are people who know better >>> than me >>> there and to me it looks like the list was dropped by accident] >>> >>> > Thank you for your enthusiastic and kind reply. You're right. With no >>> plan >>> > we meant that we haven't made up our minds for anything beyond fall >>> 2021 >>> > due to the lack of a sustainable maintainer-ship model. That is >>> something >>> > which needs to be sorted out but at the moment we don't know how! >>> >>> Thanks for clarifying. >>> >>> > We have seen the incubator process which is on the webpage. How would >>> this >>> > work? >>> >>> There are other people on this list that can probably explain better >>> than me >>> (and who have first-hand experience with the process), but I'll try to >>> answer >>> to the best of my knowledge: >>> >>> > Would the Exiv2 project be required to transfer all the history of >>> > git, issues, pull request etc. to a new location within the KDE >>> environment >>> > or could the project stay where it is at the moment? >>> >>> Short answer: yes, you need to move. @sysadmin: Is the migration tool >>> available on invent.kde.org? >>> >> >> At this time we have not done the necessary setup to import repositories, >> their merge requests, tasks and other associated information from >> GitHub.com. >> This shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, but would require some setup >> being done in advance of the import being executed. >> >> >>> >>> Longer answer: If your project was not hosted on Github it would >>> theoretically >>> be possible to remain there, but not very practical. >>> >>> To look at it from the positive side: only by moving to KDE >>> infrastructure you >>> can take full advantage of what KDE has to offer you. >>> >>> I mean knowing that you have financial, organizational, and legal >>> support from >>> one of the bigger FLOSS communities is cool, but have you ever >>> experienced a >>> situation where: >>> >>> * An international team of phenomenal translators take care of all your >>> localization needs to the point it almost seems like magic? >>> >>> * Community members actively triage bugs so that you don't have to deal >>> with >>> every duplicate bug report yourself? >>> >>> * The CI not only builds your own software on multiple platforms but >>> several >>> projects that depend on it - so you get feedback if a change >>> accidentally >>> breaks downstream projects? (I hope I'm not overselling on this point) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > Could you elaborate a >>> > bit on the process and what would be required from our end to be done? >>> In >>> > order to get the resources and plan the transition we would need to do >>> some >>> > forecasting on the work and plan it accordingly. >>> >>> That's the part where I kindly refer you to more experienced people on >>> this >>> list who have sponsored an incubator project before. >>> >>> > Regarding the applications for grants, that is something very >>> interesting >>> > but many of us have day-to-day jobs and the question would be if >>> someone >>> > would leave his job and step into this uncertainty. I don't know if >>> someone >>> > would do it or not. Mostly likely it would depend on the amount of >>> money >>> > and security etc. >>> >>> Understandable. I just wanted to make sure that you are aware of the >>> possibility. >>> >> >> Regards, >> Ben >> >> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Johannes >>> >>> >>> >>>
