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Professional support for users: http://kubuntu.emerge-open.com/buy
Support by Blue Systems to some developers & projects:
Governance: Kubuntu Council https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council
How to contact us: kubuntu.org, freenode irc: #kubuntu (-devel), kubuntu-user list, kubuntu-devel list, kubuntuforum
- Documentation on KDE userbase: http://userbase.kde.org/Kubuntu
- Kubuntu in the news: http://wire.kubuntu.org/
* our "upstream" KDE is also making big changes, starting by splitting kdelibs into the Frameworks, and basing them on Qt5
- that work is largely done, although of course each library is being improved as time goes along. Releases monthly.
- We're writing a KDE Frameworks book; more about that at books.kde.org
- Developers: apidox at api.kde.org
* KDE has now released Plasma 5, based on those new frameworks
- that is nearly done, and 5.1 was released 15 Oct.
- lots of excitement around that, because it looks and works really elegant, smooth and modern
- Riddell: 14.12 release of KDE Applications will be in December with a mix of Qt 4 and Qt 5 apps, they should both work equally well on your Plasma 4 or 5 desktop and look the same with the classic Oxygen or lovely new Breeze themes
* so our upstream is up to lots of new wonderful stuff, including using CI too (CI: continuous integration with automated testing)
* meanwhile, bugfixes continue on KDE4:
* Our base for 14.10 (codename Utopic Unicorn) is that stable KDE platform.
* At the same time, we are releasing weekly ISOs of Plasma 5, to make
it easy for people to test
- Riddell: We're releasing a tech preview of Kubuntu Plasma 5 as part of 14.10 for people to test. I'm using it daily and it's working great but expect testers to be competent enough to check for and report beasties
* we're following along to KDE's CI effort, and doing that with our packages
- see #kubuntu-ci IRC channel for the reports as they are generated
- Riddell: gory details at http://kci.pangea.pub/
- packages built constantly to check for any updates that need changed
* Our new packaging is now in Debian git, so we can share packaging work
- as time goes on, all our packaging files will be there
- tooling such as packaging scripts are being updated
- Debian and Kubuntu packagers will both save time which they can use to improve quality
* moving from LightDM to SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager), KDE/Qt default
graphical login program
* moving to systemd replacing upstart along with Debian and Ubuntu at some point in the future
* moving to Wayland when it is ready along with KDE (Kwin); now on xorg windowing system. We do not plan to use Ubuntu's Mir
* Testing until release (please!) on the 23rd:
* Testing Plasma 5:
(fresh install)
- https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Packages#Kubuntu (upgrading)
* Another way we stay close to KDE is that since Ubuntu stopped inviting community members to participate in face-to-face meetings, we have a Kubuntu Day with Akademy, KDE's annual meeting. Thanks to the Ubuntu Contributors who paid the travel costs for some of us to attend
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Thanks to Jonathan Riddell for his clarifications and corrections
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