This really needs attention, obviously the best fix would be to go back in
time and change a few things so this didn't happen in the first place but it
is probably more cost effective and quicker if the devs were more proactive
about sorting things out with google.

FWIW the "fix" isn't working for every instance - it seems ok for the first
machine on the account but subsequent ones trigger an amazing cascade of
google lockouts and security warnings which sends akonadi on that machine into
CPU melt that needs killing (and restarts everytime the network resumes) (yes
I should report this

10th November 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.64.0.

KDE Frameworks are 81 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide
variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well
tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

Hi everyone,

KIOFuse (<a href="https://invent.kde.org/kde/kio-fuse" title="https://invent.kde.org/kde/kio-fuse">https://invent.kde.org/kde/kio-fuse</a>) has been moved to kdereview.

KIOFuse is a project started by Fabian Vogt that allows the possibility to
mount KIO filesystems in the local system; therefore exposing them to
POSIX-compliant applications such as Firefox and LibreOffice. KIOSlaves are
a powerful feature within the KIO framework, allowing KIO-aware
applications such as Dolphin to interact with services out of the local
filesystem over URLs such as fish:// and smb://. However, KIO-unaware
applications are unable to interact seamlessly with KIO Slaves.

Hi,

KTrip (<a href="https://invent.kde.org/kde/ktrip" title="https://invent.kde.org/kde/ktrip">https://invent.kde.org/kde/ktrip</a>) has been moved to kdereview.

KTrip is a public transport assistant based on KPublicTransport targeted
towards Plasma Mobile and Android. Currently it supports querying journeys
between two locations as well as departures for a location but more advanced
features are possible in the future.

Nightly builds for Android are available on the binary factory (https://
binary-factory.kde.org/view/Android/job/KTrip_android/).

Destination would be extragear for now, but whatever comes out of KDE
Applications might make sense.

Cheers

Nico

Hi,

Quick Charts has been moved to KDE review. The intent is to make it a
Tier 1 framework.

Quick Charts is a QML module that implements a set of high-performance,
GPU accelerated
charts. Currently the main user of it is a new KSysGuard UI I have been
working on, but
once it is part of Frameworks I also hope to convert several bits of
Plasma to using it.

- Arjen

12th October 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.63.0.

KDE Frameworks are 81 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide
variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well
tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

Hi all,

Recently we had a discussion (which I think may have ended up spread
over a couple of mailing lists in the end) concerning branches and the
ability to force push to them.

Current policy forbids force pushing to branches except in very
limited circumstances (essentially where it is the only option to fix
a branch)

The discussion ended with two ways forward, but no 100% clear
consensus on which way we want to go forward.

Hi,

ELF Dissector has been moved to kdereview for the usual review process.

<a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/source/elf-dissector/" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/source/elf-dissector/">https://phabricator.kde.org/source/elf-dissector/</a>

ELF Dissector is a static analysis tool for ELF libraries and executables, for
doing things like inspecting forward and backward dependencies (on a library
or symbol level), identifying load-time performance bottlenecks such as
expensive static constructors or excessive relocations, or size profiling of
ELF files.

ELF Dissector has been living in playground for more than 6 years because I
was sloppy following the right process.

Hi,

as you might have seen in David's summary of the KF6 BoF at Akademy (https://
mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2019-September/093298.html),
there's the idea to have a KF6 sprint, along the lines of the KF5 sprint we
had in Randa a few years back, to determine what we actually want to achieve
with KF6 beyond just porting to Qt6.

If you are interested please subscribe to <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T11535" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/T11535">https://phabricator.kde.org/T11535</a>
and indicate your interest to participate, as well as times that would work
for you.

Hello!

At akademy we talked about the KAccounts and realized that kaccounts is
unmaintained and/or Martin is not active.

So I propose to take over maintainership of the following repositories.

- kaccounts-integration
- kaccounts-providers
- kaccounts-mobile

If you have any concerns/objections with this, let me know.

Thanks

Hi,
I would like to move ruqola to extragear/network.
So I asked to sysadmin to move ruqola to kde-review (it was done).

Ben told me that this period will start in 2 weeks.

If you want to review it... :)

Regards.

We discussed the topic of KF6, to have some sort of common direction.
When, what, how, etc.

Raw notes at <a href="https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy2019-kf6-notes" title="https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy2019-kf6-notes">https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy2019-kf6-notes</a>, but let me try to
make this more readable here.

* We created a phabricator board to manage all the tasks involved in being
able to have a Qt6-based KF6 when the time comes:
<a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/project/board/310/" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/project/board/310/">https://phabricator.kde.org/project/board/310/</a>

* The idea of a KF6-specific sprint was floated around, in December or later,
if needed to keep the momentum going. Right now a lot is happening, but then
people will go back to their daily lives....

Hey,
Last week I was debugging an issue where I realised that we were not
splitting properly a StringList field in a desktop file coming from
Flatpak.

I notice then that we are using a coma to split desktop files instead
of a ; as the standard requests.

The multiple values should be separated by a semicolon and the value
of the key may be optionally terminated by a semicolon. Trailing empty
strings must always be terminated with a semicolon.

11th August 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.61.0.

KDE Frameworks are 79 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide
variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well
tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

Hi,

following up on a recent discussion about kdesignerplugin currently providing
a single Qt Designer plugin for all of those modules from KDE Frameworks which
provide custom QWidgets, and with this coupling running against the idea of
mpdularization with KDE Frameworks, a few patches have been sketched and made
working to approach this.

Please see for discussion of problem and proposed solution with a series of
patches this task:

<a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T11289" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/T11289">https://phabricator.kde.org/T11289</a>

Please add your comments there, as well as on the patches, especially the
proposed ECMAddQtDesignerPlugin addition

Hey

our binary compatibility page [1] states that one should

"reimplement event in QObject-derived classes, even if the body for
the function is just calling the base class' implementation."

Does anyone know the reason this helps maintain BC?

[1] <a href="https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C%2B%2B" title="https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C%2B%2B">https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C%2B%2B</a>

HS

Hello folks, as you know, I'm not a coder. However, I'm interested in our
code quality, and there has been some observation that "lots of patches get
missed, and submitters get confused due to a lack of auto-populated
reviewers" on Phabricator. Nate Graham has been adding groups to the
reviewers by hand, and would like to not do that any more.

However, many developers simply route all Phab emails to folders where they
sit unread, because Phab sends out an email for every event and comment!
This is far too spammy. In our move to Gitlab, we can do better.

keurocalc has been ported to KF5 but there seems to have been no release.
Does anyone plan to make a release? Or should it go into KDE Applications?
Or should it be marked as unmaintained?

Jonathan

Hi,

I'd llike to ask whether KMid is maintained or not:
- No release/significant commit since 2010
- Already mentioned as "unmaintained" in a bug 359424 [1]
- Still not migrated to git/KF5 yet

[1] <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359424" title="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359424">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359424</a>

Best regards,
Shinjo

People,

I'v talked to Kurt and Nate this week about my current frustrations with
Phabricator, last week I got a few important patches messed up in the way
that only phab can do for you. And we agreed that a move to Gitlab is
desired, I talke to ben about it and he made me aware that this can impact
KDE release schedule.

So, here I'm, I don't know what can happen if a kde-core app moves to
gitlab now, I know that most of the apps there are from extragear. Maybe
it's time to shift more projects to it.

I'm adding Albert as cc since I belive that he knows this more than I do.

Best,
Tomaz

Hi all,

plasma-thunderbolt is a new repo containing, you guessed it, Thunderbolt KCM
for Plasma. I initially submitted the code as a patch against plasma-desktop
[0], where it got reviewed, but it was ultimately decided to better put it
into a separate repository, since it's not just a KCM but also a library and a
KDED module.

I'd like to suggest moving Simon to unmaintained.

It's still using kdelibs4

No significant commits for a couple of years

13th May 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.58.0.

KDE Frameworks are 79 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide
variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well
tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

I'd like to propose moving ksnapshot to unmaintained, it's had no code
commits since 2017 and still uses KDElibs4 and the functionality is
replaced by Spectacle.

Jonathan

Hi,

tl:dr
In your CMake code replace all remaining
add_test(<n> <c>)
with
add_test(NAME <n> COMMAND <c>)
to make sure test executables are still found once you bump the minimum ECM
version required >= 5.38.
And check your product on KDE CI, where not found test executables are now
properly reported as failure (everything got already up-to-date builds with
that change, if part of groups "Frameworks", "Applications" or "Extragear").
At least one project missed to see some unit-test regression on released
versions due to test executables not found and not run, without being
reported

Please welcome CuteHMI to KDE, it has now passed incubator into Playground

description: CuteHMI is an open-source HMI (Human Machine Interface)
software written in C++ and QML, using Qt libraries as a framework.

<a href="https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Incubated_Projects" title="https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Incubated_Projects">https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Incubated_Projects</a>

placeholder website: <a href="https://cutehmi.kde.org/" title="https://cutehmi.kde.org/">https://cutehmi.kde.org/</a>

matrix: #cutehmi:kde.org

<a href="https://community.kde.org/File:Cutehmi.png" title="https://community.kde.org/File:Cutehmi.png">https://community.kde.org/File:Cutehmi.png</a>

<a href="https://cgit.kde.org/cutehmi.git/" title="https://cgit.kde.org/cutehmi.git/">https://cgit.kde.org/cutehmi.git/</a>

Jonathan

Where do release files go after sys admin moves them? Where would they be
downloaded from?

I was notified today that the Krazy runs on the EBN have been stuck (due to a stale lockfile)
for over 3 months.

<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405506" title="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405506">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405506</a>. Could someone familiar with
craft help me with this one. kdiff3 doesn't require any special setup in
craft.