Project:KDE

KDE Project
Description	The primary goal of the Gentoo KDE project is to provide support for all packages produced by the KDE Community.
Project email	kde@gentoo.org
IRC channel	#gentoo-kde (webchat)
Lead(s)	Andreas Sturmlechner (asturm) Last elected: 2019-04-24
Member(s)	Alexey Shvetsov (alexxy) Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge) Dinosaur Michael Palimaka (kensington) Marc Schiffbauer (mschiff) Sam James (sam)
Subproject(s) (and inherited member(s))	(none)
Parent Project	Gentoo
Project listing

In addition to its primary goal of support for all packages produced by the KDE Community, the Gentoo KDE Project maintains a variety of other KDE Frameworks-based applications and underlying support packages in order to provide a first-class KDE experience.

Supported areas

Our primary focus is the same as upstream - the latest generation of KDE software:

KDE Frameworks (kde-frameworks/*)
KDE Plasma (kde-plasma/*)
KDE Gear (kde-apps/*) (but no longer limited to that category)

We have a secondary focus on:

Other KDE-produced software (such as media-gfx/krita and dev-util/kdevelop)
Miscellaneous KDE-specific software (kde-misc/*)
Popular KDE Frameworks-based software not already maintained (such as app-office/kraft and net-p2p/ktorrent)
Tools that support all of the above (such as dev-util/cmake)

Support and assistance

There are several ways to get support with KDE related issues:

To install KDE Plasma and KDE Gear on Gentoo, use the KDE Guide.
You can join #gentoo-kde (webchat) on the Libera.Chat IRC network. You'll find some of the team members there most of the time.
You can address your concerns in the Gentoo Forums. Not all of us are avid forums users but many experienced users and some developers are likely to be able to help you.
The gentoo-desktop and gentoo-user mailing lists can be used to discuss problems and announce various things (like meetings or important changes). It's necessary to subscribe before posting.
Of course, you can also file a bug report. Please read How to report bugs before.

Contributing

There's lots of ways to contribute to KDE on Gentoo, even if you are new or not familiar with ebuilds.

Supporting the community

You can help answer questions and participate in discussions over various mediums:

Gentoo Forums, usually the Desktop Environments forum.
IRC channels such as #gentoo-kde (webchat), #gentoo (webchat), and #gentoo-desktop (webchat)
Mailing lists such as gentoo-user and gentoo-desktop.

Improving documentation

You are welcome to add and edit wiki articles - be bold:

Start a new wiki article to document a new subject, knowledge or package.
Improve existing documentation by clicking Edit at the top right of an article.
Translate documentation for foreign readers.

Reporting bugs

Bugs can usually be classified as either an upstream or a downstream bug.

Issues such as build failure, missing dependencies, or features not working in Gentoo (but work in other distros) are usually downstream bugs and should be reported on Gentoo's bugzilla.

Runtime issues such as crashes or incorrect package behaviour are usually upstream bugs and should be reported on the KDE Bugtracking System. If there is a fix available that needs backporting or some other reason we need to track the bug, feel free to file a Gentoo bug about the issue too.

If in doubt, please file a Gentoo bug and we can advise you how to proceed.

In either case, please check troubleshooting, search for existing reports, and try with the latest package version before reporting.

Resolving bugs

You can help to review and resolve existing bugs:

Try to reproduce the issue and report your findings
Check to see if others are having the same problem - often further information or solutions can be found on the forums, other distributions' bugtrackers, Google...

If you want to contribute code, please fork the kde ebuild repo github mirror and send pull requests
Please read the coding style guide first
Once your pull request is merged/rebased you will get an entry in CONTRIBUTORS hall of fame

Finally, it would be great to chat to you on IRC, too - this is how we normally get to know each other. Please drop into #gentoo-kde (webchat) and chat with us. If you have any problems or questions, feel free to /query individual team members or ask in #gentoo-kde (webchat), #gentoo-desktop (webchat) or #gentoo (webchat).

Development information

We provide a number of documents to support working with KDE-related ebuilds and eclasses in Gentoo:

Recruitment

There are currently no staffing needs posted for this project.

Meetings

Next meeting: tba

Agenda: tba

Meeting bug tracker: bug #460994

The KDE team holds irregular meetings in #gentoo-meetings (webchat). Whenever there is a meeting, it will be announced together with the agenda in the topic of #gentoo-kde (webchat). Everyone is welcome to attend.

Date	Participants	Log	Summary
March 11, 2015	dilfridge, johu, kensington, mrueg, scarabeus	20150311
August 10, 2014	alexxy, creffett, dilfridge, johu, kensington, mrueg, scarabeus	20140810
March 30, 2014	ago, creffett, johu, kensington, mrueg, scarabeus	20140329
May 23, 2013	ago, creffett, dilfridge, jmbsvicetto, johu, scarabeus, thev00d00	20130523
March 21, 2013	ago, creffett, dilfridge, dastergon, jmorgan, scarabeus	20130321
January 17, 2013	alexxy, creffett, dilfridge, dastergon, mschiff, thev00d00	20130117
November 8, 2012	creffett, dilfridge, jmbsvicetto, kensington	20121108
September 27, 2012	ago, creffett, dilfridge, johu, mschiff, scarabeus, tampakrap, thev00d00	20120927
August 16, 2012	ago, creffett, dilfridge, jmbsvicetto, johu, tampakrap, Thev00d00	20120816	20120816
June 21, 2012	alexxy, dilfridge, scarabeus, tampakrap	20120621	20120621
May 17, 2012	alexxy, creffett, dilfridge, johu, JoseJX, kensington, reavertm	20120517	20120517
April 19, 2012	alexxy, dilfridge, johu, kensington, scarabeus, tampakrap, thev00d00	20120419	20120419
March 22, 2012	alexxy, dilfridge, johu, mschiff, scarabeus, tampakrap	20120322	20120322
January 16, 2012	alexxy, dilfridge, jmbsvicetto, johu, mschiff, tampakrap, Thev00d00	20120116	20120116
August 31, 2011		20110831
June 02, 2011		20110602	20110602
March 31, 2011		20110331
February 10, 2011		20110210	20110210
September 2, 2010	ABCD, dilfridge, reavertm, spatz, tampakrap	20100902	20100902
June 4, 2010	ABCD, alexxy, dilfridge, wired, scarabeus, deathwing00, patrick, jmbsvicetto	20100604	20100604
March 18, 2010	alexxy, jmbsvicetto, patrick, scarabeus, spatz, tampakrap, wired	20100318	20100318
February 25, 2010	abcd, alexxy, jmbsvicetto, patrick, reavertm, scarabeus, spatz, ssuominen, tampakrap, wired	20100225	20100225
November 19, 2009	abcd, ayoy, dagger, ingmar, jmbsvicetto, mrpouet, patrick, pesa, scarabeus, spatz, sput, tampakrap, wired, yngwin	20091119
September 24, 2009	abcd, alexxy, ayoy, dagger, jmbsvicetto, patrick, pesa, reavertm, tampakrap, wired	20090924
September 17, 2009	abcd, alexxy, ayoy, jmbsvicetto, patrick, pesa, reavertm, spatz, tampakrap, wired	20090917
August 20, 2009	abcd, ayoy, bonsaikitten, dagger, jmbsvicetto, reavertm, scarabeus, wired, yngwin	20090820	20090820
June 18, 2009	alexxy, bonsaikitten, hworang, jmbsvicetto, Pessa, reavertm, scarabeus, spatz, tampakrap, wired, yngwin	20090618	20090618
May 21, 2009	alexxy, bonsaikitten, civil, cryos, dagger, hwoarang, jmbsvicetto, krytzz, lxnay, papillon81, reavertm, scarabeus, tampakrap, wired, yngwin	20090521	20090521
April 1, 2009	alexxy, bonsaikitten, cryos, hwoarang, jmbsvicetto, krytzz, reavertm, scarabeus, tampakrap, wired, yngwin	20090401	20090401
March 5, 2009	alexxy, bonsaikitten, cryos, hwoarang, jmbsvicetto, reavertm, scarabeus, tampakrap, wired, yngwin	20090305	20090305
February 12, 2009	alexxy, hwoarang, jmbsvicetto, krytzz, reavertm, scarabeus, Sput, tampakrap, wired, yngwin	20090212	20090212
January 08, 2009	cryos, jmbsvicetto (at the end), patrick, scarabeus, yngwin, most of the HTs	20090108	20090108
December 04, 2008	cryos, jmbsvicetto, keytoaster, patrick, scarabeus, yngwin, most of the HTs	20081204	20081204
March 06, 2008	caleb, cryos, deathwing00, genstef, ingmar, jmbsvicetto, keytoaster, philantrop, tgurr, zlin	20080306	20080306
October 13, 2007	cryos, genstef, jmbsvicetto, keytoaster, philantrop, tgurr	20071013	20071013

Past meeting agendas are also available.