Saturday, September 27, 2014
Plasma 5.1 release parties!
Plasma 5.1 is coming up in less than a month, we have already two release parties in the planning, but i'm sure you have some fellow KDE users around you want to meet and have a beer with, so hop onto your local LUG, meetup, or something, organize a party and add it to https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Release_Parties/Plasma5.1
Thursday, September 25, 2014
The KDE Gardening Team
At Akademy I did a short talk (8 min) + herded a BoF with a title called "Quality is in the eye of the beholder".
One of the topics was that we should try to get a team of people to care about the global state of KDE software, we've decided to call this "The Gardening Team".
The mandate of the team is to:
# Find *really* important bugs and ping people to fix them
# Find stale reviewboards and ping people to fix them
# Bugzilla gardening, close old products etc
# Find projects that need love and give them some
For that we have various ideas:
Try to find monthly a bug to get people to fix it, by highlighting it as "The Bug of The Month" or something. Of course this bug can't be stuff like "Make Okular support javascript", it has to be something that is really a pain point of the whole user base and we think we can find people to fix it, it makes no sense setting impossible goals ;)
Do routine passes over reviewboard trying to identify stale requests and finding people to help moving those.
Run something called "Love Project". The idea is to pick up a project that is somewhat stale, and for a short amount of time (let's say 2/3 months) try to get a new release out, fix the most important crashers/bugs, get the review boards released, etc. This goal of the team is *not* becoming the maintainers of the project, but maybe by virtue of the "Love Project" we can attract new contributors that decide to.
Since we're only a few maybe we can't do this all, so we're focusing on a particular "Love Project" by now, but you should join and help us do more!
Our current Love Project is K3b, that had 2.0.2 released a long time ago and has a 2.0 branch with a few more bugfixes that have been never released.
We are coordinating through https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=show&project_id=26 at the moment but plan to get a mailing list soon (or invade an unused existing one).
If you're interested, comment and i'll give you a shout when the list is created, no mega skills are needed (though people with mega skills are also welcome ;))
One of the topics was that we should try to get a team of people to care about the global state of KDE software, we've decided to call this "The Gardening Team".
The mandate of the team is to:
# Find *really* important bugs and ping people to fix them
# Find stale reviewboards and ping people to fix them
# Bugzilla gardening, close old products etc
# Find projects that need love and give them some
For that we have various ideas:
Try to find monthly a bug to get people to fix it, by highlighting it as "The Bug of The Month" or something. Of course this bug can't be stuff like "Make Okular support javascript", it has to be something that is really a pain point of the whole user base and we think we can find people to fix it, it makes no sense setting impossible goals ;)
Do routine passes over reviewboard trying to identify stale requests and finding people to help moving those.
Run something called "Love Project". The idea is to pick up a project that is somewhat stale, and for a short amount of time (let's say 2/3 months) try to get a new release out, fix the most important crashers/bugs, get the review boards released, etc. This goal of the team is *not* becoming the maintainers of the project, but maybe by virtue of the "Love Project" we can attract new contributors that decide to.
Since we're only a few maybe we can't do this all, so we're focusing on a particular "Love Project" by now, but you should join and help us do more!
Our current Love Project is K3b, that had 2.0.2 released a long time ago and has a 2.0 branch with a few more bugfixes that have been never released.
We are coordinating through https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=show&project_id=26 at the moment but plan to get a mailing list soon (or invade an unused existing one).
If you're interested, comment and i'll give you a shout when the list is created, no mega skills are needed (though people with mega skills are also welcome ;))
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
KDE Applications 14.12 Release Schedule
The schedule for KDE Applications 14.12 release is ready. As always it's available in techbase at https://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/14.12_Release_Schedule.
The Freeze is only one month away!
The Freeze is only one month away!
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Okular wants to "Save"
TLDR - Short version:
We are reworking part of the "Save As" code, and we are adding the long-requested "Save" button! The old "internal implicit save" behavior is being dropped and we need your input about what to do with data saved internally by previous Okular versions.
Please visit https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=251&t=122750 and share your opinion on the poll/comments.
We are reworking part of the "Save As" code, and we are adding the long-requested "Save" button! The old "internal implicit save" behavior is being dropped and we need your input about what to do with data saved internally by previous Okular versions.
Please visit https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=251&t=122750 and share your opinion on the poll/comments.
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