I am proud to announce the fourth CMake 3.16 release candidate.
<a href="https://cmake.org/download/" title="https://cmake.org/download/">https://cmake.org/download/</a>

Documentation is available at:
<a href="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16" title="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16">https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16</a>

Release notes appear below and are also published at
<a href="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html" title="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html">https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html</a>

Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.16 are:

* CMake learned to support the Objective C ("OBJC") and Objective
C++ ("OBJCXX") languages. They may be enabled via the "project()"
and "enable_language()" commands.

Hi everyone,

Currently we have an issue where the test 'kdav-davitemfetchjob' within
kdav causes kdeinit5 to be relaunched, as can be seen in the CI
run log below.

<a href="https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kdav/job/kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.12/38/console" title="https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kdav/job/kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.12/38/console">https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kdav/job/kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.12...</a>

This is behaviour which is not permitted within the CI system, as the
newly spawned 'kdeinit5' processes are treated as being launched by
that test by CTest, meaning it will wait for eternity for them to exit
(which as resident daemon processes, they will not do without manual
intervention).

This in turn blocks the job from completing, and blocks

Hi all,

Currently we have an issue where the test 'testkioarchive' within
kio-extras causes kdeinit5 to be relaunched, as can be seen in the CI
run log below.

<a href="https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kio-extras/job/kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.12/40/console" title="https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kio-extras/job/kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.12/40/console">https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kio-extras/job/kf5-qt5%20SUSE...</a>

This is behaviour which is not permitted within the CI system, as the
newly spawned 'kdeinit5' processes are treated as being launched by
that test by CTest, meaning it will wait for eternity for them to exit
(which as resident daemon processes, they will not do without manual
intervention).

This in turn blocks the job from completing, and block

The branch naming has changed to try to accommodate for the stopping of the "KDE Applications" brand, it's now called
release/19.12

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the 19.12 releases to them

We're already past the dependency freeze.

The Freeze and Beta is this Thursday 14 of November.

More interesting dates
November 28, 2019: KDE Applications 19.12 RC (19.11.90) Tagging and Release
December 5, 2019: KDE Applications 19.12 Tagging
December 12, 2019: KDE Applications 19.12 Release

<a href="https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/19.08_Release_Schedule" title="https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/19.08_Release_Schedule">https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/19.08_Release_Schedule</a>

Cheers,
Al

Hi all,

Over the past number of years one of the tasks the Sysadmin team has
worked on has been improving the overall maintainability of our
systems, with a significant number of specialised cronjobs, exceptions
and hidden linkages being eliminated.

That is with one great exception: api.kde.org and ebn.kde.org.

Both of these are suffering from an extreme amount of digital bitrot
and special casing and in general are now in a condition where I
cannot say for certain whether it would be possible to replicate the
setup on a new system without us experiencing some degree of breakage
(some of wh

Hi all,

In the category of code related services, Sysadmin currently supports
a wide-ranging number of services (which makes sense given the nature
of the community). Some of these however may no longer be in use or
will be duplicative of other services following the transition to
Gitlab.

In the category of duplicative, we have our two CGit instances at
cgit.kde.org and packaging.neon.kde.org.

Hello everyone

I'm maintainer of Subtitle Composer. It's an KF5 application to edit/create/translate/sync video subtitles.

I would like to start the process of joining KDE and I need a sponsor.
This was already proposed in <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T10034" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/T10034">https://phabricator.kde.org/T10034</a>.
Application project page is here: <a href="https://github.com/maxrd2/SubtitleComposer" title="https://github.com/maxrd2/SubtitleComposer">https://github.com/maxrd2/SubtitleComposer</a> and relative ticket is here
<a href="https://github.com/maxrd2/SubtitleComposer/issues/74" title="https://github.com/maxrd2/SubtitleComposer/issues/74">https://github.com/maxrd2/SubtitleComposer/issues/74</a>

thanks,
 Mladen

I am proud to announce the third CMake 3.16 release candidate.
<a href="https://cmake.org/download/" title="https://cmake.org/download/">https://cmake.org/download/</a>

Documentation is available at:
<a href="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16" title="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16">https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16</a>

Release notes appear below and are also published at
<a href="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html" title="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html">https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html</a>

Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.16 are:

* CMake learned to support the Objective C ("OBJC") and Objective
C++ ("OBJCXX") languages. They may be enabled via the "project()"
and "enable_language()" commands.

Plasma 5.18 kickoff meeting today in less than 4 hours at 14:00UTC/15:00CET

Hi,

happy to see people starting to adapt the new deprecation macros available
with KDE Frameworks (and any other library using ECMGenerateExportHeader,
coming with ECM 5.64).

Just, I see commits adding things like
--- 8< ---
add_definitions(-DKF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE_AND_AT=0x060000
--- 8< ---
or
--- 8< ---
if (EXISTS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/.git")
add_definitions(-DKF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE_AND_AT=0x060000)
endif()
--- 8< ---
Like it also has been done before with the friend macro from Qt,
QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE.

The issue is: this will result in broken builds once any fut

Hi guys,

I am developing an OpenGL / GLFW application (for highest platform
independence and easiest porting efforts). It's basically a terminal
emulator, and I want the background to be optionally transparent (done) but
also blurred (done for windows, not linux/mac). I found out, that for KDE's
konsole, it's not doing it by itself but using
KWindowEffects::enableBlurBehind(...)
instead, which is more or less how you do it on Windows 10 too.

or maybe renamed?

How do I find out if there are any GHNS for KOrganizer.
The Import->GHNS menu in KOrganizer starts and I see the import dialog ok.
but that dialog is empty.

I need to know if something is broken with the KOrganizer implementation
or if I should remove that feature. Or maybe just nothing to import, which
makes me think I should remove the feature.

Hi everyone,

just a quick heads up that KDE Frameworks minimum Qt version requirement
policy [1] does not permit the use of ECMAScript 6/7 features in
repositories such as KDeclarative and Plasma-Framework at this time.

Current supported Frameworks minimum version is Qt 5.11 (I think?

I just triaged a bug about KMPlayer's AppStream ID not working properly:
<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412542" title="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412542">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412542</a>

That the AppStream ID in current git master differs from the version in
distro repos, which is a problem because KMPlayer hasn't had a release
in 3 years.

We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.15.4 is now available for download.

This release fixes a regression in EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL.

Please use the latest release from our download page:
<a href="https://cmake.org/download/" title="https://cmake.org/download/">https://cmake.org/download/</a>

Thanks for your support!

Brad King (10):
VS: Tell VS 16.4 not to verify SYMBOLIC custom command outputs
Tests: Teach RunCMake to support a custom working directory
Tests: Revise RunCMake.add_subdirectory ExcludeFromAll to avoid globbing
Tests: Clarify target names in

Good morning everyone,

As previously discussed on the KDE Community mailing list, we've now
retired notes.kde.org from service in favour of the Nextcloud realtime
editor and it's associated functionality.

To assist in making this functionality as easy to work with as
possible, Sysadmin has provisioned a community shared folder to host
these documents.

A system settings category .desktop file got moved from systemd-kcm to
plasma
<a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D22930" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/D22930">https://phabricator.kde.org/D22930</a>
This makes packages incompatible which breaks installs

So we could just do a new release of systemd-kcm but it is unmaintained and
has not passed kdereview so it seems unwise.
<a href="https://projects.kde.org/api/v1/projects/playground/sysadmin/systemd-kcm" title="https://projects.kde.org/api/v1/projects/playground/sysadmin/systemd-kcm">https://projects.kde.org/api/v1/projects/playground/sysadmin/systemd-kcm</a>

It should not have been put in the stable directory when it was released
<a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/systemd-kcm/" title="https://download.kde.org/stable/systemd-kcm/">https://download.kde.org/stable/systemd-kcm/</a>

Does anyone want to maintain it to the extent of checking it works without
security or feature breakages and get it t

Good evening all,

Currently we're in the situation where the software we use to run
notes.kde.org is both difficult to maintain, as well as support (for
things like document confidentiality for various groups within KDE).

We'd therefore like to retire the service, replacing it with the
Realtime Text Editor within Nextcloud (share.kde.org).

Hi,

since I am the only person responsible for bigger changes to
libkscreen and KScreen over months now I propose to take over
maintainership of libkscreen / KScreen. Actually I changed the
maintainership information already in code for KScreen with
<a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D22468" title="https://phabricator.kde.org/D22468">https://phabricator.kde.org/D22468</a>,
but I remembered that there are other areas needed for official
transfer (for example bugs.kde.org default assigne and repo metadata),
so that's what this email is for.

If there are questions please let me know.

Cheers,
Roman

I've made a thing that makes systemd-coredump easier to use and I for
one use it as a replacement for drkonqi because it's both more
reliable but also less UI faffing to get to what matters most to me...
gdb.

<a href="https://invent.kde.org/sitter/kde-coredump" title="https://invent.kde.org/sitter/kde-coredump">https://invent.kde.org/sitter/kde-coredump</a>

We could probably pursue extending it further and make it extragear or
something if there's interest.

HS

Hi,

do we want to do another Flatpak/Snap/Appimage BoF at Akademy this year? From
my side it definitely can be useful and we can also have new people around
this time and help them to package their applications if anyone is interested.

Which day would you prefer? There is AGM on Monday and a daytrip on Wednesday,
while most of the Tuesday is taken by Plasma, which is where I expect most of
the people. Does Thursday sound good to you?

Regards,
Jan

Hi,
I just installed a fresh ubuntu and noticed that the GCompris licence
in the snap package was "Proprietary". After some search, I think it's
because it's set to "unset" in the snap package:
<a href="https://snapcraft.io/gcompris" title="https://snapcraft.io/gcompris">https://snapcraft.io/gcompris</a>

Does anyone know who should I contact to set it to GPLv3+? There is
also a "Is there a problem with gcompris? Report this app" button that
I can contact if nobody knows.

Thanks,

Johnny

Hi all,

For a while now we've had a couple of projects which have been
persistently failing on all platforms, which it would be nice to get
fixed.

If someone would like to take a look into one of the following, it
would be appreciated, and would help to eliminate the last couple of
items from the Failing tab at <a href="https://build.kde.org/" title="https://build.kde.org/">https://build.kde.org/</a>

- Kajongg: Fails with a CMake error due to the build path getting
wrapped up in part of the target name.

Per comments on phabricator, I'm duplicating that I sent a merge request here <a href="https://invent.kde.org/kde/konsole/merge_requests/21" title="https://invent.kde.org/kde/konsole/merge_requests/21">https://invent.kde.org/kde/konsole/merge_requests/21</a>

For KWin we think about a message guideline because our current best
practice that we got used to over time is just sometimes putting tags
in square brackets at the beginning of the subject line for indicating
the location of the change in code but somebody noted having a square
bracket in the beginning leads to problems with certain git log parser
tools.

Asking around on IRC it seems we should expand the scope. Apparently
also other KDE projects could profit from a policy and some tooling
around it.

Hi all,

i would like to check if there is some interest into including SQL tool
into KDE and helping with development.

We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.15.2 is now available for download.

Please use the latest release from our download page:
<a href="https://cmake.org/download/" title="https://cmake.org/download/">https://cmake.org/download/</a>

Thanks for your support!

Brad King (8):
Swift: Restore support for enabling with INTERFACE libraries
VS: Fix mapping of `-Qspectre-` flag
source_group: Fix regression in relative FILES
clang: Restore support for clang-cl on non-Windows hosts
fileapi: Fix codemodel target install destination for cross-dir rules
clang:

Greetings,

I have been working on a utility called Ikona. Ikona is an application
with a simple goal - to be a companion to a full fledged editor in
helping the user design icons. It shows the icons in just about any
way you want them shown - against a wallpaper, solid background,
transparent background on a wallpaper, over the KDE HIG, small, big,
you name it. It also bundles icon templates with sizes and pixel grids
preconfigured to allow designers to start working on an icon
immediately without having to set up a canvas.

Howdy folks,

The deadline for KDE Applications 19.08 is fast approaching and we need
release notes! I've created
<a href="https://notes.kde.org/p/applications_19.08_new_features" title="https://notes.kde.org/p/applications_19.08_new_features">https://notes.kde.org/p/applications_19.08_new_features</a> and done a first
pass on populating it with notes, but more are needed.

If your awesome features and bugfixes will land in the Applications
19.08 release, please add it to that document so it can be included in
the release announcement -- ideally before July 29th (sorry for the
short notice on this).