GSoC 2015 Status Update

[Aroonav Mishra]

On 6 August 2015 at 01:16, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi Aroonav,
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Aroonav Mishra <aroonav11 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have made quite a lot of changes since the last time I posted here but
> > most of the changes have been pretty straightforward. The changes mainly
> > consist of the ones that I have already mentioned in my previous posts
> here.
> >
> > During the port of the code in src/context, I realized that it is going
> to
> > take a LOT of time to complete. We may have to move to QML as Plasma 5
> only
> > supports QML for the widgets. So Mark suggested to leave it aside for the
> > moment. To get around it, I tried to disable the compilation of
> src/context
> > and the files that depend on the stuff in src/context. Well I should have
> > guessed that it won't work and later I had to comment out the code that
> was
> > causing the linking errors. I have appropriately marked out each
> commented
> > piece of code (with "FIXME: disabled temporarily for KF5 porting") so
> that
> > it can be re-enabled later and we won't have to deal with obscure bugs
> due
> > to their absence.
>
> Good decision.
> >
> > I had to remove the second arguement of the KPluginInfo constructor (
> > KPluginInfo( const QString & filename, const char* resource = 0 ) has
> > changed to KPluginInfo (const QString &filename) ). I am still unsure
> > whether this change is correct or not.
> >
> > Apart from all this, the changes to the code-base have been pretty
> simple.
> > They consisted of changes like the inclusion of some of the moc files,
> > addition of Q_OBJECT macro, changes for KUrl-->QUrl port, addition of
> > headers, etc. I will be pushing the commits that reflect these above
> changes
> > soon.
>
> Great work. Could it be that you forgot to also blog your reports? the
> last blog entry I can see is
> http://binaryspring.blogspot.de/2015/07/gsoc-2015-week-5-6-with-amarok.html
>
I am really sorry about the absence of recent posts on the blog.

> Would be nice if you could add a summary blog of the work since, as it
> is visible on Planet KDE and all those not subscribed to this mailing
> list will see the progress, too.
>
I have added a post now and I have also updated the GSoC '15 Status Reports
page.

> We should also talk about merging your repository to a public "Qt5"
> branch in git, so eventual contributors could chime in. It will also
> help with the visibility of your work, private repos are not that easy
> to follow.
>
> Regards, Myriam
>
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Cheers,
Aroonav
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