Hi,one month ago I sent an email to Basket current maintainer regarding how Basket could get back in KDE, offering my help in doing so. As I mentioned in that mail, I see many benefits of moving to KDE: infrastructure (phabricator, bugzilla, gitlab, ...), advertisement, developer interest, and so on; I think it could be especially useful since Basket has not been developed for more than a year at this point. In the email I mentioned that I was up to doing all the porting work, plus maintaining the application once inside KDE, making sure it gets promoted, and so on. Since I did not receive an answer, I was considering moving forward with that, especially since there has not been significant development in more than a year. Do you have any feedback on that? For transparency, here is my original email:
> Hi! > I'm Niccolò Venerandi from the KDE community. I have been using Basket for > some time, and I really appreciated the many features that it has. Unluckly, > I noticed that there was no big development since one year ago. I have > recently found some posts of Basket users asking if there was anybody that > could help the development of Basket; in particular, this > (https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/ehaq8j/discussion_kde_basket/) thread > got me really interested. He even says that Basket could become one of the > "jewel of KDE" with some help, which I can really agree with, since the good > time I had with it. > Since I like both KDE and Basket, I was wondering if I could help in that > happening. In the last years I formed a good knowledge of how the KDE > community works internally, and I really think that moving back to being a > KDE project would bring many benefits to Basket. There are infrastructure > benefits: KDE can offer website hosting, bugzilla, hosting both on > cgit.kde.org or kde gitlab, matrix/irc/telegram bridget chats, phabricator > boards to organize and so on. There are also advertisement benefits, as being > inside KDE means that every release is advertized in the Application Update > on the dot.kde.org, which is followed by many users, and advertisement can be > pushed from KDE promotional accounts with more than 80k followers, and Basket > would being indexed in the list of KDE applications on the application > website, plus it would become a part of Apps promotional videos (especially > if it happens before the 20th of Feb). Also, KDE community is great at > helping on many tasks if asked, such as creating new logos, creating mockups, > testing the application, analysing the visual design, updating the website, > and so on, all done in the KDE Visual Design Group. Finally, I also think > that moving inside KDE would mean more contributors, as a) there are many > developers who love KDE and (just like me) would be ready to help develop any > KDE application to make the overall KDE quality greater, b) the increase of > promotion and userbase would possibly bring new contributors (they only need > a KDE Identity, which has never been a problem based on past onboarding > activities). > Since I know how the KDE community works, I'm absolutely up to do the whole > work (setting up chats, sysadmin tasks, websites, everything). If Basket gets > into KDE, I will also work on fixing bugs and adding new features regularly. > A couple of things that I'd love to implement in the long term are Akonadi > (facultative) support like Kjots currently has and, if it works, a Kirigami > interface that would make Basket work on Plasma Mobile and Android as well. > If it supported Akonadi, Basket could also be embedded into the Kontact > suite, helping Basket reach even more users. If necessary (you got busy or > anything), I'm also up to becoming a mantainer of it as part of the KDE app > suite. Just tell me if that's needed. > For the reasons above, I'd suggest to consider moving to KDE and I would more > than happy to help in that case. Thanks in advance,Niccolò Venerandi p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
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