[Kexi-devel] Two repos prepared for porting to Qt 5

Fri Jan 16 12:26:37 GMT 2015

Many thanks,
Challenge assigned :)

Please try to use the KF5 style of framework layout (the src/ dir,
naming, etc.). Links are on the Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5 page.

kreport does not use predicate/calligradb except for one thing: the
new plugiloader. But we are moving to Qt5's one I think so that
dependency can be dropped to.

On 16 January 2015 at 13:21, Adam Pigg <piggz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll port k report, unless anyone else has a burning desire to
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>   Original Message
> From: Jaroslaw Staniek
> Sent: Friday, 16 January 2015 12:17 PM
> To: Inge Wallin
> Reply To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list
> Cc: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list; kexi-devel at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Two repos prepared for porting to Qt 5
>
> BTW, update from Ben Cooksley, personal repos are supposed to be r-w
> for everyone, just push force is there enabled.
> This way you can undo a commit easily (where admin rights would be
> needed if calligra.git was used).
>
> On 16 January 2015 at 12:09, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>> On 16 January 2015 at 11:49, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>>> I am sorry, this was sent by mistake to jaroslaw alone. :/
>>>
>>> Here is what I wrote
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> On Friday, January 16, 2015 09:47:51 you wrote:
>>>> You'd work like on github, use pull request (via filing on
>>>> reviewboard). Scratch repo assumes it's the repo owner who integrates
>>>> the changes. He's the integrator. There are also personal clones, you
>>>> pull the kproperty there for example.
>>>
>>> This sounds very cumbersome. Another question is how would you update your
>>> own copy to mirror the newly integrated patches?
>>
>> You can merge and even pull-rebase. All the repos are visible at
>> http://quickgit.kde.org and there's nothing different than github
>> workflow.
>> Decision to use either workflow is individual for given case. We're
>> entering special time and it will quickly I get back to norm hope.[1]
>> I'll be waiting for feedback from contributors actually involved.
>>
>> We have qt5 predicate branches in official repo already too and use
>> the principle of "only owner writes there" but for this is only a
>> gentleman agreement.
>>
>> [1] But 'one big repo' approach won't come back, BTW.
>>
>>>> When history gets rewriten and dirs are massively moved here and
>>>> there, I see no point in having multiple-writes type of repos.
>>>
>>> Why would history be rewritten? This never happened to any big extent in the
>>> kde edu cases. And I would *strongly* recommend to not combine porting with
>>> refactoring but do one after the other is finished.
>>>
>>>> Rejecting this workflow is another topic. There are just two workflows
>>>> the above being for special (short) time.
>>>>
>>>> On 16 January 2015 at 09:26, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>>>> > On Friday, January 16, 2015 09:26:37 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>>> >> On 16 January 2015 at 09:14, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>>>> >> > On Friday, January 16, 2015 01:26:20 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>>> >> >> Hi,
>>>> >> >> For those willing to work on porting, two repos have been created:
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> git clone kde:scratch/staniek/kproperty
>>>> >> >> git clone kde:scratch/staniek/kreport
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> These are files cut off from calligra/2.9, with history.
>>>> >> >> It's best if you work in own scratch repos.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Why this? That makes all cooperation impossible. The best thing would
>>>> >> > be
>>>> >> > if somebody took the effort to port the CMakefiles to use KF5 but after
>>>> >> > that it should be possible for anybody to port individual aspekts of it
>>>> >> > independently, right?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Well, imagine that at this early stage I had to push with -force
>>>> >> already once for these repos... not something expected in calligra/
>>>> >> It's just not ready for use, porting these libs within calligra/ does
>>>> >> not seem justified to me: we'd fix paths for example to reflect
>>>> >> conventions of Qt 5 but paths and namespaces will change after
>>>> >> extraction to separate libs => extra work.
>>>> >
>>>> > That's not what I was replying to. My point was that "It's best if you
>>>> > work in own scratch repos." makes no sense since it will be impossible to
>>>> > cooperate.>
>>>> >> BTW, these two are only used by Kexi and no refactoring happen, just
>>>> >> semi-automatic work. And after all these are easier libs so give us
>>>> >> get some real experience.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > At least, that is how it has worked in kde-edu and that gave no
>>>> >> > problems
>>>> >> > whatsoever.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >> Porting hints: https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>
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>> Kexi:
>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
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>
>
>
> --
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>
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> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
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> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
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-- 
regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

KDE:
: A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
: and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
Calligra Suite:
: A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
Kexi:
: A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
Qt Certified Specialist:
: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek