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  option so PRs and pushes exercise ctest inside the same KDE SDK
  sandbox as release builds.
- Add REUSE.toml covering files that can't carry an inline SPDX header
  (.desktop, keys/*.asc).
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Contributing to Kareer

Build

Kareer is a KDE/Kirigami application (C++20 + QML) built with CMake and Extra CMake Modules. See the README for the full list of system packages to install, then:

cmake -B build -G Ninja
cmake --build build
./build/bin/kareer

Every GUI action is also available from the kareer CLI (add|list|show|update|stage|delete|stats|stages) — run ./build/bin/kareer --help to see the subcommands.

Test

ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure

Tests live in autotests/ and link the core logic directly out of src/ (see autotests/CMakeLists.txt). CI runs the same suite on every pull request via .github/workflows/test.yml, using flatpak-builder's run-tests option so the run happens inside the same KDE SDK sandbox as release builds.

Conventions

  • Every source file starts with SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later (in whatever comment syntax fits the file type). Files that can't carry an inline header — .desktop, keys/*.asc — are covered instead by REUSE.toml.
  • src/ is intentionally flat: one class per concern, no models/, controllers/, or viewmodels/ subfolders.
  • C++ backend classes are exposed to QML via QML_ELEMENT; QML views are meant to stay thin renderers over that state, not hold logic themselves.
  • JobsDatabase is the only class that touches the SQLite database directly — route all persistence changes through it.

Releasing

.github/workflows/build.yml builds, signs, and publishes a Flatpak bundle whenever a v* tag is pushed. To cut a release: bump project(... VERSION ...) in CMakeLists.txt, add a matching <release> entry to the metainfo file, update the manifest's pinned tag:, then tag and push.