Gentoo KDE ProjectThe KDE project consists of two teams that manage the KDE and Qt ebuilds within Gentoo, which include all KDE applications. However, some KDE applications might belong to specific herds due to the fact that the KDE project cannot maintain all of them properly, as there are too many applications and many of them are not used by the KDE maintainers. Nevertheless, the project does support the teams that do manage these applications, and will ensure that they use the KDE eclasses appropriately. The goal of the Gentoo KDE team is to provide working support for all packages supported by the KDE Project. We also support as many underlying packages as necessary in order to have a properly working KDE environment. The latest stable version of KDE in the official Portage Tree is 3.5.9. It has been marked stable on all stable-supporting architectures: alpha, amd64, hppa, ia64, ppc, ppc64, sparc, x86.
The latest testing version of KDE 3 in the official Portage Tree is 3.5.10. This version only includes split ebuilds. If you're having problems updating to a KDE version >3.5.7, please read this FAQ. The latest version of KDE 4.2 in the official Portage Tree is 4.2.3. This version is also only availible via split ebuilds. This version is now only ~arch keyworded (in other words, in testing branch). KDE 4 is not yet marked stable as we feel it isn't sufficiently stable and feature complete - in particular when compared to KDE 3.5. Our estimate is that this will happen after KDE 3.5.10 stabilisation which should be dealt with until end of June 2009. Some additional applications, as well as snapshot and live ebuilds for KDE 4 are located in the official kde-testing overlay, available via layman. Things in there are considered not stable enough for the tree, but are used for testing. If you are a bold and daring Gentoo user, you can help us with testing these ebuilds. KDE3 testing, and in future also maintainance, overlay. Currently named in layman as kde3. This overlay is planned to contain agressive changes in kde3 buildsystem now done by tampakrap and in future it will be user overlay where KDE 3 will be let to be maintained by users (new packages updates/etc.) due to planned removal of KDE 3 from main tree. Just DON'T PANIC it definetly wont happen before KDE 4.4. There is also an overlay for testing Qt development versions and new Qt4 applications. This is called qting-edge, and also available via layman. It contains snapshots and live ebuilds for the official Qt code, as well as qt-copy, which is patched by KDE. Please see the Gentoo Overlays Users's Guide to get all information about how to use overlays. You can get support for these overlays in the #gentoo-kde IRC channel. For those beyond bold and daring but rather suicidal, live SVN ebuilds are also provided by the genkdesvn overlay, called kde in layman, which you'll recognise by the version scm. This overlay is only for paludis users so portage users should really stick with kde-testing, more on the note paludis users can also use kde-testing :] You can get all information about the overlay at the official website which is located at http://genkdesvn.mailstation.de. You can get support for this overlay in #genkdesvn.
The KDE team holds regular meetings in #gentoo-kde on the third Thursday of every month at 19:00 UTC. Whenever there is a meeting, it will be announced together with the agenda in the topic of #gentoo-kde. Summaries of each meeting will be available here, along with raw logs for public viewing.
There are several ways to get support with KDE related issues. You can:
The main thing that needs doing is trawling through the current open bugs and finding those that are stale, or those that have an equivalent on KDE's Bugzilla. You'll find a current list of open bugs here: http://tinyurl.com/3bpdlv. For those that are stale, you should ask if on the bug if the problem remains in the latest version. If someone has already done this and the reporter (or someone else experiencing the same problem) has not replied it should be marked NEEDINFO. Also, some bugs have been filed from people using the sabayon overlay or others. These need to be reproduced by someone using vanilla ebuilds (i.e., not from an unstable overlay). Pointing this out on the bug is likely to prompt one of us to close it as INVALID until someone can reproduce it. It would also be nice if you could ask the reporter to report it to that overlay's bug tracker. For Sabayon it's http://bugs.sabayonlinux.org. Speaking of bugs - now you can become a Herd Tester, too! You'll find all the necessary information about what a Herd Tester is and does on the KDE Herd Testers Project Page.
Finally, it would be great to chat to you on IRC, too - this is how we normally get to know each other. Please drop into #gentoo-kde and chat with us. If you have any problems or questions, feel free to /query individual team members or ask in #gentoo-kde, #gentoo-desktop or #gentoo.
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org. The KDE project has the following subprojects:
The KDE project maintains the following herds:
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