Debian KDE Extras Team Presentation

Speaker: Mark Purcell

The Debian KDE Extras Team maintain a portfolio of extra application packages for Debian GNU/Linux outside the KDE core applications. Highlights of these applications in order of Debian popularity (excluding libraries) include; kile, kaffeine, kipi-plugins, digikam, kmplayer, knemo, taskjuggler, kmymoney, rsibreak and codeine.

This presentation will include discussion on the following areas:

• Brief overview on some of the key applications
• How KDE packages are incorporated into Debian
• Integration and interaction with upstream KDE developers
• Debian bug tracking & synchronisation with KDE bug tracking http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org
• Integration and interaction with (k)ubuntu developers
• svn.debian.org kde-extras archive and potential for non Debian contributors
• Debian Quality Assurance; lintian, dak (aka katie) & build for 11 architectures - (alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc)
• Debian Release cycles. What are sid, etch and sarge anyway.
• Debian Popularity Contest and KDE applications

Mark Purcell

Mark Purcell is an admin for the Debian KDE Extras and Pkg VOIP teams which also provides the KDE twinkle & kiax builds for ubuntu and debian distributions. He has been a Debian developer since 2001 and his main Linux interests lie in VoIP, digital photography and multimedia applications.

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