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Description
With its 30 years of publicly available commit history, KDE is an exceptional project. More than 5,000 people have contributed more than 8 million lines of code in almost 900,000 commits in the core modules alone. This presentation will show some graphical insights into KDE's code base and its history. We will touch the shape of its modules, its release history, peek into the work of some exceptional contributors and get a feeling for how the activity moved around over the years. And we will explore the stories behind some of its most significant events.
Spoiler alert. KDE is more alive than ever. The last two years saw more people contributing than any year before. And that built on all the work from the decades before. In this session we will see how.
Description
I did some analysis of KDE's code base in 2009 (https://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2009/10/4273291-lines-of-code.html) and am now repeating that to get a picture of what 30 years of code mean. I have published a few bits (https://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2026/05/55041902-lines-of-code.html), but are not done yet. At Akademy I would like to show the full results.
Biography
Cornelius Schumacher is a long-time contributor to KDE and various other open source projects. He worked as developer on applications such as KOrganizer and Kontact, and was in the board of KDE e.V. for nine years. His interest has shifted to the big picture over time, and recently was captured by the question of sustainable computing. In his day job Cornelius works as Open Source Steward for DB Systel, which is part of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company.
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