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Continue the development of Enve
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Hello everyone

Enve is perfect 2D animation software for motion graphics that has stopped developing, its developer is in poor health.

it is a lot of software that has bugs to be fixed it is made in C ++ and QT and uses the Skia library, so I was wondering if KDE could embrace this project which is very interesting and did not want it to die and as I am not a programmer what I can help is only with interfaces and on the UX side, if someone could and / or want to help, I would be very grateful.

I got to do motion graphics on it for college

https://youtu.be/qIVEq1-N-IM

the narration is in Portuguese

Project link: https://maurycyliebner.github.io/
Brazilian group on Telegram: https://t.me/envebr

rafasantos created this task.Dec 22 2020, 5:50 PM
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ognarb closed this task as Invalid.Dec 22 2020, 11:33 PM
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While I would love to see Enve part of KDE, just making it part of KDE won't solve the problem of Enve development having slowed down. I see that the Enve author committed some work recently, maybe you could ask him instead if he wants to become a part of KDE, so that the project gets a stable home.

Please make sure to link him to our manifesto page with a list of benefits and commitments for KDE project: https://manifesto.kde.org/benefits.html and https://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html. And also, making it a KDE project won't mean it needs to use any KDE frameworks and only work on Linux :) I can help him get through the Incubator process if he is ok: https://community.kde.org/Incubator.

rafasantos added a comment.Dec 23 2020, 12:09 AM
In T13979#246947, @ognarb wrote:

While I would love to see Enve part of KDE, just making it part of KDE won't solve the problem of Enve development having slowed down. I see that the Enve author committed some work recently, maybe you could ask him instead if he wants to become a part of KDE, so that the project gets a stable home.

Please make sure to link him to our manifesto page with a list of benefits and commitments for KDE project: https://manifesto.kde.org/benefits.html and https://manifesto.kde.org/commitments.html. And also, making it a KDE project won't mean it needs to use any KDE frameworks and only work on Linux :) I can help him get through the Incubator process if he is ok: https://community.kde.org/Incubator.

the question is to see if someone from KDE has an interest in continuing, because the developer is in poor health and is not responding to messages and we don't even know if he is alive, that's why I'm here to see if anyone can or / and wants to continue

ognarb added a comment.Dec 23 2020, 8:56 AM

The author made some commits recently https://github.com/MaurycyLiebner/enve (17 hours ago). Moving his project to KDE won't automatically bring new developers but could if we start promoting the project using KDE promotional channel and sharing the infrastructure could simplify the maintenance for him (CI pipeline, i18n, ...).

rafasantos added a comment.Dec 23 2020, 4:26 PM
In T13979#246980, @ognarb wrote:

The author made some commits recently https://github.com/MaurycyLiebner/enve (17 hours ago). Moving his project to KDE won't automatically bring new developers but could if we start promoting the project using KDE promotional channel and sharing the infrastructure could simplify the maintenance for him (CI pipeline, i18n, ...).

truth, had not even seen
the software stopped a few months, I'll see if I talk to him to bring the software to KDE