Falkon Incubation
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We want to incubate Falkon aka QupZilla.

https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/Falkon

We use the workboard of the Falkon project to track the subtasks.

cullmann created this task.Aug 24 2017, 8:09 AM

What are the steps I can do to progress the "Manifesto compliance" part?

Hmm, I think it would be needed to e.g. ensure sysadmin has backup of the non-kde infrastructure hosted parts like the website.
And normally one would create a falkon-... mailing list as contact point and a bugzilla falkon product.

Beside that, given the sources are now hosted on kde infrastructure, the license is OK IMHO and no FLA or other things are there most other things should be ok already.

But perhaps Kevin has more input for that, I am no "manifesto-pro".

ervin added a comment.Aug 27 2017, 5:57 PM

Hello,

I think you're right, there's also the continuity agreement ("If the authors of the software abandon it or disappear, they agree to transfer the trademark to the next maintainer"), but really it's more a "we trust the word" of the current maintainer, not something very formal.

Cheers.

drosca added a comment.EditedFeb 5 2018, 4:33 PM

So, I'd like to make a release soon, what has to be finished before that?
I will pull translations from Transifex next week, new logo will hopefully be ready soon too.

There is still no CI build, but I'm not sure how to do that. So far what I understand (and remember) is that it needs to be added to logical-module-structure in kde:kde-build-metadata, but in that file the repository needs to be specified with "prefix" (eg. kdereview, playground, extragear, ...). So where is the falkon repository now?

dfaure added a comment.Feb 5 2018, 5:58 PM

Right now it's kdereview/falkon, according to kde_projects.xml

drosca added a comment.Apr 3 2018, 3:17 PM

I've updated the wiki page. The last thing is manifesto compliance, can we check this and finish the incubation?

Sure, perhaps Kevin as "Manifesto" expert can take a short look if he thinks all is in order?
I am not aware of any issues, but perhaps a second opinion would be good.

ervin added a comment.Apr 21 2018, 3:12 PM

Well, that wiki page seems out of date: https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/Falkon

It's where I'd look for missing stuff, if I assume the todos there are in fact now addressed, we're probably good. :-)

> I consider this now incubated.

I updated the wiki pages.

Before I close this task: Is there the idea to replace konqueror in kde/applications/ with this and release falkon (in addition to any extra release) together with kde applications?

Like any other application, the pace of release depends on the maintainer. But it's a precise choice: joining the release cycle of KDE Applications (which is just a bundle) would mean no additional independent releases.
If you want to talk about moving Konqueror out of KDE Applications, that's a different story.

cullmann closed this task as Resolved.Aug 16 2018, 7:29 PM

Ok, then I just consider this task done.