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.
Identity Accounts
All accounts in the KDE infrastructure are synchronized in a unified system called KDE Identity which is free to use.
Version Control
- Git
- You can explore the source code of KDE projects on the server https://invent.kde.org server which runs the GitLab development/operations system. You can check out code, create "forks" with changes, review code changes, and submit merge requests. You use the Git version control system for some of these actions.
- The Infrastructure/GitLab page has information to get started.
- We have some additional guidelines and information about the GitHub mirror of some source code.
- SVN
- Some projects such as i18n (to localize the programs) still use SVN. KDE's Subversion repository can be browsed on https://websvn.kde.org/. Some guidelines are at /Subversion.
- 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 GitLab. Before May 2020, KDE used Phabricator, and before 2015, KDE used Review Board.
- Project Management
- Projects are still managed with Phabricator. This functionality will gradually be migrated to GitLab.
- Continuous Building - Jenkins
- To ensure high-quality, KDE software operates a continuous integration system using Gitlab CI.
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:
- - Matrix
- - IRC
- - Mailing Lists
- - Jabber
Documentation
- User documentation
- https://docs.kde.org has KDE user documentation in many languages.
- API documentation
- https://api.kde.org has documentation generated from source code using the KApiDox framework.
- Develop
- https://develop.kde.org documents the public libraries and scripting utilities for reuse 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
- REST API