Infrastructure
KDE software is hosted on infrastructure managed by the KDE Sysadmins.
Identity Accounts
Every accounts in the KDE infrastructure are synchronized in a same system. It is called KDE Identity.
Version Control
The KDE projects are mostly using Git. The repositories can be browsed on our QuickGit and managed on KDE Projects.
Find guidelines here.
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.
Find out how to get commit access.
Code quality
Before pushing code to the repositories, the community has to review it.
- Reviews
- The current used system is Review Board. However projects are heavily encouraged to move to the new system: Phabricator.
- 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
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
Localization
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