ervin's piece of web

You want to help us make progresses on KDE Frameworks 5... But you missed the volunteer day? No problem! It wasn't a one time event, and we're having the second edition this week-end!

We're of course a bit sorry for the late notice, we'll try to announce the next one more in advance.

Come and join us! Saturday March 24 on Freenode #kde-devel channel!

This day will be mentored by Sune Vuorela (svuorela), Dario Freddi (drf) and David Faure (dfaure) from 10am to 6pm CET. Feel free to ping them on the channel.

They will be around to guide you and answer all the questions you could have on KDE Frameworks 5.

Pre-requisites: Qt 4.8, a build of kdelibs frameworks branch (note the you will need cmake 2.8.7 for it or the cmake git version and a clone of extra-cmake-modules). You can also read the Frameworks Community wiki pages in order to learn more about Frameworks internals.

Remember Saturday, 10am to 6pm CET, #kde-devel on Freenode, be there, help our community!

You want to help us make progresses on KDE Frameworks 5... But you're not sure you're up to the job? You don't know what to look at or where to start? You're not sure what it takes to be a KDE Framework maintainer?

Fear not! We're thinking about you, and we will have the first KDE Frameworks 5 volunteer day next saturday.

Come and join us! Saturday February 18 on Freenode #kde-devel channel!

This day will be driven by Aaron Seigo (aseigo) and myself (ervin) from 10am to 6pm CET. Feel free to ping us on the channel.

We will be around to guide you answer all the questions you didn't dare asking to get yourself started on helping us with KDE Frameworks 5.

We're preparing tasks to allocate to volunteers, and they will range from the small self-contained code adjustment, to splitting your own KDE Framework out of kdelibs and becoming its maintainer. Eternal glory will be provided with any task package you pick, so don't hesitate anymore, it's your chance right now!

Remember Saturday, 10am to 6pm CET, #kde-devel on Freenode, be there, help our community!

Just a quicky on "what I did this week-end".

And yet another week-end which went away like a blast... of course it was again the fault of KDE! I went all the way to Osnabrück to attend the traditional KDE PIM sprint. This one was a first for me despite the fact that it was its tenth edition.

My plan before flying in was simple and easy to remember: "Sit with David Faure and fix all his IMAP bugs". It turned out not that easy to apply in practice. Of course, there's always something unexpected... sometimes pleasant, sometimes not.

For the unpleasant part, we had a tough luck on Friday: David's travel wasn't smooth at all so he arrived only during the night, while I had a terrible headache during the afternoon and the evening which made me only able to triage bugs (and at a very slow pace even...).

The pleasantly unexpected event which turned me away from my initial simple plan was the presence of Christian Mollekopf and Björn Balazs. I work with Christian on Zanshin, and I already interacted with Björn quite a bit during the Forge 2011 for usability work... one plus one being equal to lots, we ended up having meetings to discuss the interaction schemes for Zanshin 0.3. I have to say I'm pleased with the results so far. There's still a few gray areas but I think we'll decide on those when we turn the ideas into code.

And for the IMAP support? Well let's say that despite the disturbances which turned me away from my plan, the bug count went drastically down. On arrival, there was a bit more than forty bug reports against the IMAP resource, and between the triaging and the bugfixes we worked on with David I'm now leaving the sprint with only twenty known bugs (also a couple will likely get closed shortly since patches are in the work).

And again, a fairly nice and productive sprint, courtesy of KDE. I looove this community!