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by distances 2786 days ago
You seem to be having some grave misconceptions about

1. How open source projects work, 2. How polished and stable KDE already is, and 3. How useful piece of software KDE Connect is.

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1) Of course you can't force contributors to do anything but there are ways: tell them repeatedly there are bugs that need fixing, refuse to give them infrastructure to host their pet projects and make it clear they are not official and can't bear the KDE trademark, etc.

2) Don't make me laugh.

3) I don't even own an Android so I could never know. And that's not the point.

I know this is just some ranting and nothing will change. KDE went down a hole a long time ago when they lost their funding. But I'm sad to see the things that are happening to it. KDE does not deserve to die like this.

KDE just recently received a 300k donation [1].

You seem to remember KDE from the 4.x dark times. Give it a try, it has vastly improved in the last 2 years.

[1] https://dot.kde.org/2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-dona...

Refuse to give them infrastructure? You seem to know the recipe to kill an open source project.

Have you considered working in enterprise software?

2) You are the one making people laugh here :P