Good morning Ben, for that we would need accounts for the KDE environment which we don't have at the moment. As far as I understood it so far, they will be created in the process of onboarding a project. Who can do that?
Cheers, Alex On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 10:07, Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:23 PM alexander.essel...@googlemail.com < > alexander.essel...@gmail.com> 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 <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:34 PM Johannes Zarl-Zierl < >>> johan...@zarl-zierl.at> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>
