This looks exciting, welcome along. If you want to get the process started we'd make an incubation page. I can help out if you like, give me a ping on KDE Development room on Matrix (webchat.kde.org)
https://community.kde.org/Incubator Jonathan On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 20:59, alexander.essel...@googlemail.com < alexander.essel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen: > > I am writing to you on behalf of the Exiv2 project https://exiv2.org. > > Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete > and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. It is widely used in the > Linux ecosystem and part of many applications such as digiKam, Gimp, > darktable and many more. > > The Exiv2 project is hosted at the moment on GitHub ( > https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2). We would like to evaluate the > possibility of onboarding the Exiv2 project into the KDE community. > > The project is in good shape and the next release is scheduled to ship May > 2021. There is a small group of people who frequently contribute to the > project. However the current maintainer, Robin Mills, is retiring at the > age of 70 after 13 years of service to the project. Robin has written a > book about the project and discusses every aspect of both the Exiv2 > Architecture and Image Metadata Standards. > https://clanmills.com/exiv2/book/ > > Last Saturday (2021-02-27) there was a meeting concerning the future of > the Exiv2 and we tried to find a new maintainer. Regrettably because of > the time demand imposed on the maintainer, no one volunteered. By joining > the KDE community we hope to address this issue and keep this important > project alive. The meeting notes can be found on the GitHub issue ( > https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1466). > > In addition to finding a new maintainer, being part of KDE would bring > Exiv2 into the Open Invention Network. We are very interested in this > aspect of KDE as it mitigates risks involved in patent discussions. > > Yours, > > Alex Esseling and Robin Mills >