Incubation Request

Background

In carlschwan/apps#2 we discussed the possibility of incubating Crow Translate. We think that both projects will benefit from it 🙂

We have two maintainers: @shatur and @volkmilit, both from the original GitHub repository. @athozus is also expressed the interest, we would welcome you in our team!

Our plan is to make the first release under KDE umbrella with minimal changes in the code (I outlined these changes in #693 (closed)). After the incubation in the long term we planning to migrate from Qt5 to Qt6 and consider replacing our own translation backend library with KTextAddons.

We consider the project itself feature complete and mostly focused on maintenance. But we also welcome contributions with new features and I usually review them swiftly.

I closed all old issues from GitHub because in KDE they used only by devs (regular users should use https://bugs.kde.org).

KDE Incubator checklist

• Incubation Sponsor is @felixernst.
• E-mailed kde-devel@ and other relevant lists on 2024-06-09: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2024-June/002797.html.
• Compliance with the [https://manifesto.kde.org KDE Manifesto]
• Governance similar to the other KDE projects
• Clear product vision
• Healthy team (healthy proportion of volunteers, inclusive towards new contributors, ideally more than one developer)
• Uses English for code and communication
• Continuity agreement must be in place with KDE e.V. for domains and trademarks if the authors disappear
• Recommended to attend Akademy or other local KDE events
• Code in KDE Invent
• Passing CI job for reuse linting