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Subversion 1.4 is used for source control management in KDE.

Dirk Muller and the kde sysadmin team maintain the KDE SVN servers.

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• git
• bazaar
• mercurial

• CMake is the current KDE build tool.

• Alexander Neundorf

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http://lxr.kde.org is used for searching for existing use of classes in KDE.

• sysadmin@kde.org

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• Review-board used by plasma project. In KDE in general this process does not take place, except for some specific patches which may be sent to the relevant mailing list.
• trunk/kdereview is used to review major new features and new applications prior to inclusion in KDE trunk.

David Solbach and the kde sysadmin team maintain the Plasma review-board installation.

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• Launchpad.net offers bug tracking via bugs.launchpad.net

• kde-commits mailing list records all commits to KDE svn.
• The commit filter is used to filter relevant commits based on path of the commit. This is used by several projects to forward commits to the relevant mailing list.

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Design review takes place on mailing lists/wikis and in face-to-face/BOF sessions at conferences and sprints.

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techbase.kde.org is a mediawiki powered site used for collaborating on technical tasks such as tutorials, schedules, and project information.

• Danimo is the mediawiki admin for techbase.kde.org.

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doxygen is used to generate api documentation from documentation strings in code. It is generated nightly and hosted on http://api.kde.org.

• Allen Winter administers api.kde.org.

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meinproc is used to generate user documentation from module doc/ folders and is hosted on http://docs.kde.org.

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Bug tracking in KDE is managed using Bugzilla 2.x.

Matt Rogers and the kde sysadmin team maintain the KDE bugzilla installation.

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• Launchpad.net offers bug tracking via bugs.launchpad.net

Krazy hosted at EnglishBreakfastNetwork (EBN) is used for static code analysis.

• Adriaan de Groot
• Allen Winter

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• Continuous build server reports broken builds on linux.
• CDash build server stores results of non-linux builds (Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, etc) for kdelibs.

• Dirk Mueller maintains the dashboard

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Unit tests may be written with the QTest framework. Tests can be run with the command 'make test'.

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The early adopter/user community tests beta versions of KDE. Additionally some work is done by SQO-OSS on quality in KDE.

• Adriaan de Groot
• Paul Adams

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• kde-optimize mailing list coordinates optimizations in KDE.
• Krazy also includes some optimization checks.

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• http://usability.kde.org/
• http://openusability.org/projects.php
• Season of usability

• Celeste Lyn Paul
• Ellen Reitmayr

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• http://research.kde.org

• Adriaan de Groot

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• Requirements come from user feedback on http://bugs.kde.org and from commercial interests.
• Developers may do some research into requirements for applications based on User Research Profiles.

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• The KDE marketing team manage marketing and promotion from official kde sources.
• http://dot.kde.org is the community forum around promotional announcements.
• http://www.kde.org/announcements is the official source of promotional announcements regarding KDE.
• Design and maintenance of KDE websites is organised on the kde-www mailing list

• Wade Olsen
• Troy Unrau
• Jos Poortvliet

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A community management group is being worked on.

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The release team mailing list is used for release planning, and release plans maintained on techbase at Schedules.

The KDE release team

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techbase.kde.org is currently used for feature planning, specifically Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan etc.

The KDE release team

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• Launchpad.net offers a blueprints system.

The kde-artists team creates offical artwork for KDE. Additional contributed artwork is available on http://kde-look.org.

• Nuno Pinheiro

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• http://i18n.kde.org/ is used for level of completion of translations in KDE.
• GNU gettext is used for translation in KDE.
• .po files are edited directly in KDE svn to update translations.
• A kde4 based translation client (lokalize) is being developed in kdesdk/.
• Krazy includes sanity checks/plurals checking for translation.

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launchpad.net features a web-based tool called rosetta, which allows for easier fly-by translations.