On 2017 M01 14, Sat 16:53:19 CET Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 11:18:07 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > > Manifesto says one of our values is "Inclusivity to ensure that all > > people are welcome to join us and participate;". Be inclusive, give > > Kubuntu and Fedora a place on phab to manage their todos. Costs us > > nothing, helps our friends make their product which features our > > products better. If either starts calling themselves a KDE project or > > misrepresents their association with KDE, hit them with the manifesto > > bat. > > Let me add to that: Any distribution or spin shipping our software is of > course welcome to become a KDE project as well (from KDE's side, at least). > neon was the first to ask for that, but it's not exclusive.
well, I wouldn't put it this way. Regarding neon we had a major discussion whether it is a good idea that KDE starts to put his toes into distro waters. I am myself not really decided, both sides have valid points. The "vision" discussion resulted in a nice statement, which avoids mentioning what we do (or do not do) completely. The "mission" discussion has paused for some months now... I think there is still the split between people seeing KDE as an organization "supporting all kinds of FLOSS-related projects" (as the last eV report puts it), and people seeing KDE as an organization developing (Qt-based) end-user software. Extending KDE's scope to distros is, so to say, extending it vertically, which is a reasonable idea with pros and cons worth discussion, but it's not a no- brainer. Extending KDE's scope to Wikis, is extending it horizontally, which is IMO even more worth discussion. OTOH, "being nice" towards friends is something where there is I think more or less unanimous agreement in the KDE community. Alex