Akademy Redux: Release Team Members Propose New Development Process (KDE.News)

KDE.News coverssome changes that are planned for the KDE development process.”At Akademy 2008, KDE Release Team members Sebastian Kügler and Dirk Müller discussed the future of KDE’s development process. Describing the challenges KDE faces and proposing some solutions, they spawned a lot of discussion. Read on for a summary of what has been said and done around this topic at Akademy.Our current development model has served us for over 10 years now. We did a transition to Subversion some years ago, and we now use CMake, but basically we still work like we did a long time ago: only some tools have changed slightly. But times are changing.

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