Infrastructure

Konqi is working the infrastructure!

KDE software is hosted on infrastructure managed by the KDE Sysadmins. If needed, a ticket can be opened on https://go.kde.org/systickets (or http://sysadmin.kde.org/tickets).

Identity Accounts

All accounts in the KDE infrastructure are synchronized in a unified system called KDE Identity.

• Get a Developer Account

Version Control

Git

The KDE projects are mostly using Git. The repositories can be browsed online via our web interface.

Find our guidelines and informations about the Github mirror.

SVN

Some projects such as i18n (to localize the programs) or some websites still use SVN. The repository can be browsed on https://websvn.kde.org/. Some guidelines could be found here.

Commit access

Find out how to get commit access.

Content distribution

In order to distribute and spread the software and other data produced by the community, KDE uses mainly two distribution networks.

Code quality

Before pushing code to the repositories, the community has to review it.

Reviews

The current used system is Phabricator. However projects are gradually moving to GitLab at invent.kde.org that replaces Phabricator's code review functionality. Before introduction of Phabricator in 2015, the main review tool used to be Review Board.

Project Management

Projects are now managed with Phabricator.

Continuous Building - Jenkins

To ensure high-quality, KDE software operates a continuous integration system, namely Jenkins.

English Breakfast Network - Static Analysis

Krazy - Code Analysis, Usage Tutorial

APIDOX - API Documentation Statistics

Sanitizer - DocBook Checker

Usability Checks

Community communication

Blogging

KDE Developers are encouraged to blog about their actions. More information about blogging here.

Emails

KDE provides email aliases in @kdemail.net and @kde.org.

Communication channels

Several communication channels are maintained by KDE:

- IRC

- Mailing Lists

- Jabber

Documentation

API documentation

https://api.kde.org, where the kapidox documention can be found.

Techbase

https://techbase.kde.org, where the public libraries and scripting utilities are documented to be reused by external developers

Project Metadata

• Project metadata, used for various internal and external scripts to aid in source code compilation, continuous integration, translation, and other administrative tasks.
• Project structure
• REST API

Misc

• GeoIP API