Editing KDE (section)

=== Development ===
Currently the KDE community uses the [[Git (software)|Git]] version control system. The KDE GitLab Instance (named Invent) gives an overview of all projects hosted by KDE's Git repository system. [[Phabricator]] is used for task management.<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Phabricator
| title = Infrastructure/Phabricator KDE Community Wiki page
| access-date = 2018-10-07
| archive-date = 7 October 2018
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181007223242/https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Phabricator
| url-status = live
}}</ref>

On 20 July 2009, KDE announced that the one millionth commit has been made to its Subversion repository.<ref name="KDE Reaches 1,000,000 Commits in its Subversion Repository">{{cite news
| url = http://dot.kde.org/2009/07/20/kde-reaches-1000000-commits-its-subversion-repository
| title = KDE Reaches 1,000,000 Commits in its Subversion Repository
| last = Mitchell | first = Jeff
| publisher = KDE
| date = 2009-07-20
| access-date = 2010-11-13
| archive-date = 29 November 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201129075216/https://dot.kde.org/2009/07/20/kde-reaches-1000000-commits-its-subversion-repository
| url-status = live
}}</ref> On 11 October 2009, Cornelius Schumacher, a main developer within KDE,<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.behindkde.org/node/403
|title= People Behind KDE: Cornelius Schumacher
|date= February 4, 2002
|access-date= 2010-11-18
|archive-date= 8 April 2020
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200408211141/http://www.behindkde.org/node/403
|url-status= live
}}</ref> wrote about the estimated cost (using the [[COCOMO]] model with SLOCCount) to develop KDE software package with 4,273,291 [[Lines of Code|LoC]], which would be about US$175,364,716.<ref>{{cite news
| url = http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Code-Statistics-KDE-Costs-175-Million-Dollars
| title = Code Statistics: KDE Costs 175 Million Dollars
| last = Hilzinger | first = Marcel
| agency = Linux Magazine
| date = 2009-10-12
| access-date = 2010-12-30
| archive-date = 25 June 2018
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180625142705/http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Code-Statistics-KDE-Costs-175-Million-Dollars
| url-status = live
}}</ref> This estimation does not include Qt, [[Calligra Suite]], [[Amarok (software)|Amarok]], [[digiKam]], and other applications that are not part of KDE core.{{clarify|What is KDE core?|date=April 2012}}