next plasma active sprint

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On 02/11/2012 06:56 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:56:09 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
>> Why is this so tight notice?
> because putting it off and off and off gets us nowhere quickly. people have been
> talking about making this happen since december. i'm just relaying the
> results.
>
> if this date does not work for you, and it is indeed too tight time-wise, let
> me suggest an alternative:
>
> let's organize a meeting somewhere specifically about applications for Plasma
> Active. this would almost certainly have a far broader reach than just Plasma
> Active core dev and it would give both topics, apps and PA core, an
> opportunity to get focus and attention.
>
> one concern i do have with having both app and PA core topics on the table is
> that we may not pay enough attention to either, or only really cover one and
> not the other topic sufficiently, due to time constraints (as well as the fact
> that people like marco and i are probably useful on both topics but can't be
> in two places at once :)
>
> would a separate Active Apps sprint set a bit more in the future be something
> you would support, appreciate and like to be a part of?
>
> we can of couse try to make it all happen at this PA3 sprint, too ... but i'd
> like to make it work well for everyone's needs as much as possible.
I think having apps developers will help Active core development as 
well. We have all those KDE developers who got ExoPC at last Akademy and 
not doing much with them, it seems to me important to start developing 
new apps and porting existing ones so KDE apps would be more adapted to 
desktop and hand devices. Spreading the word on how to start developing 
Active apps will increase exposure of core Active code and will 
therefore increase its development and debugging.
It seems the perfect timing to initiate this, before we are all busy 
with Qt5 and frameworks port.

In KDE Edu we started a new app which is a Memory game and which I 
slowed down from a 4.8 release in the hope it would be a versatile app 
(not a traditional layout with menubar and all this stuff we don't need 
for kids apps) so it's another reason why I'd like very much having 
those 2 Edu people at the meeting. Aleix and Laszlo are very good 
developers and can help with core coding as well.

So far there are only 2 core developers registered for the sprint plus 
Thomas for one day.

But it's your call on if this is on target or not. This is only my 
reasoning and I asked this list before asking my team, Marco answered 
positively. If this is restricted to design decisions and core stuff for 
PA3, I agree it's not relevant for Aleix and Laszlo to be there.

Best regards,

Anne-Marie