Guidelines for creating a new framework

If you are creating a new framework, this checklist can help you get it done correctly:

Make sure it follows all the active policies
The above includes many important things, make sure to read all of it. E.g. it includes the often forgotten rule for installing translations
If it is created by splitting code from an existing repository, the new repository should be created by using a script to create a graft point
Run astyle-kdelibs
Ensure the module doesn't depend on deprecated or "portingAid" frameworks like kdelibs4support
Ensure the module is in frameworks/ (in the projects.kde.org XML), otherwise ask for it to be moved there
Adjust kde:kde-build-metadata - in particular, add it to the deps for frameworks/kf5umbrella
Get the CI jobs set up
- Get the job set up on build.kde.org by filing a task towards https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/build.kde.org/
- Make sure to request it to be added to the relevant view: http://build.kde.org/view/Frameworks%20kf5-qt5/ view
- Ensure it is green
Add a new product for it on bugs.kde.org, which must be called frameworks-<name>
Add the repository to reviewboard.kde.org (by filing a sysadmin ticket)
Finally when it's all ready, change the yaml file to say release: true. The release scripts will then pick it up automatically for the next KF release.

Template

The framework-template directory in the kdeexamples repository has a setup.sh script that generates a helpful skeleton framework that is a good starting point for creating a framework. For example, if you were creating the KConfig framework, you might run

./setup.sh KConfig ../../kconfig

then go to the newly created "kconfig" directory and start adding source files etc.