Hi all. Why does not KDE send Incubator proposals to all active even inactive FOSS qt5 (and even qt4) projects. A simple mail with the idea to join forces with kde, it might triger inactive contributors to take a look at the welcome kde projects they might want to help and contribute to more healthy projects than theirs. Also a good proposal is to merge projects. Kde can incubate programs that are more healthy and have more contributors than some kde programs that do exactly the same job. [idea=]EXAMPLE[/idea] Clementine the music player has 9 active contributors in 2017 and also a qt5 fork maintained and waiting. In big projects you can do exactly what you do with Qupzilla. Guys you can have your own website, technologies but you will also benefit from our community. There are a lot of independent qt projects doing the same thing just send a mail to old and new maintainers. We all know more contributors might help in other parts of the software and send more correct bug reports about everything. Dont be shy we dont have something to loose. The immature apps will stay in extra gear repositories and as half independant projects nobody will blame KDE. The most important is that more developers will be working in an up to date kde environment. To make things easier spread the idea to doffrent kde project maintainers that really need manpower
Thank you for your time

Aris Tsakas wrote:Hi all. Why does not KDE send Incubator proposals to all active even inactive FOSS qt5 (and even qt4) projects. A simple mail with the idea to join forces with kde, it might triger inactive contributors to take a look at the welcome kde projects they might want to help and contribute to more healthy projects than theirs. Also a good proposal is to merge projects. Kde can incubate programs that are more healthy and have more contributors than some kde programs that do exactly the same job. [idea=]EXAMPLE[/idea] Clementine the music player has 9 active contributors in 2017 and also a qt5 fork maintained and waiting. In big projects you can do exactly what you do with Qupzilla. Guys you can have your own website, technologies but you will also benefit from our community. There are a lot of independent qt projects doing the same thing just send a mail to old and new maintainers. We all know more contributors might help in other parts of the software and send more correct bug reports about everything. Dont be shy we dont have something to loose. The immature apps will stay in extra gear repositories and as half independant projects nobody will blame KDE. The most important is that more developers will be working in an up to date kde environment. To make things easier spread the idea to doffrent kde project maintainers that really need manpower
Thank you for your time

Joining your issue.
The current situation seems a illogically to me, so is there a hidden reason for that or smth else?

The only reason why i wrote this thought- proposal is i enjoy KDE and want the community to grow and flourish. One way to achieve that is by approaching new or old developers active or not a welcoming mail might touch them. It happened in other Incubated projects. Many developers have pet projects in github some not so active some might be better than our kde apps i dont know. Asking them to join forces with our community or adopting their specific good app would be nice. I imagine people that use Krita GCompris Kdenlive learned or searched more about KDE even thought of using it. The sure thing is that the majority of their developers work on a KDE environment and from time to time support contribute and report bugs to this great community. Why don t we try to make this ecosystem bigger. I imagine that the majority of programmers feels more motivated and useful instead of working on his/her own contributing to something bigger.

goldabarreto wrote:...
The current situation seems a illogically to me, so is there a hidden reason for that or smth else?

I'm curious what you find so illogical about the current situation?

A collection of individuals from around the world (the KDE community) contribute their time and talents towards a set of core technologies (KDE frameworks, Plasma Desktop and KDE applications). These technologies are made freely available so others can use them, including to build additional frameworks and applications. By some definitions the people who contribute to some of these projects which build on top of KDE technologies are included in the wider KDE community.
Sometimes these people start contributing to the core KDE technologies, which is wonderful. Sometimes they don't and even abandon their projects. This may be disappointing but is expected, being an important part of free software: People work on the projects that they feel are more important and worthwhile. If something is abandoned that usually indicates there isn't enough interest for it to be worth people's time, and those people who were contributing to that project are now contributing to other more worthwhile projects.

Perhaps it might be worth seeking out people who have contributed to KDE or any projects which make use of KDE or Qt libraries and invite them to join the KDE community. We may even find a couple of developers who can start contributing directly to KDE.
In the case of people who make apps on Qt without KDE, it may be worth inviting them to try using the KDE 5 frameworks, now that the frameworks have been taken apart into separate more consumable components. I've seen a number of projects who claim not depending on (prior versions of) KDE as a bonus because it keeps the app light. I think the situation has changed enough with the new KDE frameworks for some of these projects to reconsider their positions.