ideas for features I’ll be working on

[Alexander van Loon]

I’ve finally decided I’m going to work on writing features for the Commit Digest. I’d love to hear some advice on whether my 
choices for possible features are good. Based on commit traffic I’ve seen:

The KOffice branch for the implementation of the ODF 1.2 Proposed Change Tracking format - 
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/koffice-change-tracking/ - ask Ganesh Paramasivam - ganesh at crystalfab.com - 
because he seems to be the most active committer on that branch.

The KOffice-Essen branch with work on features - http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/koffice-essen/ - last commits are 
three weeks old, not sure if that’s because of the split to Calligra, Calligra’s migration to Git or whatever, but AFAIK this work is 
not yet included in KOffice 2.3 released today (or is it?). Will ask on the Calligra mailing list if there’s something interesting to 
tell about this.

Today I’ve reviewed a lot of commits for the Public Transport Plasma applet - 
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/publictransport/ - ask Friedrich Karl Tilman Pülz - 
fpuelz at gmx.de - if there’s a story here. I’m not sure though if a Plasma applet is important enough for the Commit Digest?

Apper (which is another name for KPackageKit?) - https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/sysadmin/apper/activity -  
dropped by in the commits I reviewed. Don’t remember any recent blog posts about it by it’s primary developer Daniel 
Nicoletti - dantti85-kde at yahoo.com.br - so I’ll sent him an e-mail and ask.

Kile - https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/office/kile/activity - which recently migrated to KDE’s Git infrastructure from 
Sourceforge. I’ve got to admit that this project is sort of my favorite project, and that I’m a bit sad to see that the project isn’t 
very active and that the KDE4 port still doesn’t have a stable release. It’s developers don’t blog on PlanetKDE at all, so I want 
to help them to get some media exposure. I think something could be written about the work done so far, their migration to 
KDE’s Git, and other stuff. Maybe the material would be more suitable for a Dot article on it’s own rather than the Dot though, 
given the absence of commits and the length of the story.