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? 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. Cheers, Johannes
