[Digikam-devel] Re: Needing ideas for Rosedu's Open Source Development Course

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Gabriel,

In general, for junior jobs, i recommend to take a look into components
outside digiKam core. Why ?  because it can have side-effect with the whole
program to touch in this area.

It must be better to take a look in plugins.

You have 2 way :

1/ plug-ins for image editor.
2/ plug-ins for album gui (kipi-plugins).

Now how to select job ? Use bugzilla and look Wishes files by preference
order. Bugs can be more complex to fix and can take a while.

In all case, use bugzilla for each entry found and post messages and patches
by this way. This is the best QA work-flow.

I don't recommend to use kde review tool. It's not link to bugzilla, and
it's complex to follow in time.

Do not use devel mailing list directly. Use bugzilla instead. All post from
bugzilla are posted in this mailing list.

For new idea, i recommend also to use bugzilla, and create new entries with
attached patches.

Like you can see, the main tool is bugzilla.

Another idea is to review all entries with patch attached. All these entries
have "[patch]" annotation in the title. It's easy to find these entries with
bugzilla search engine.

Now the ultimate question which code to patch ?

- If patch is not too intrusive, 1.x from trunk can be patch, and later code
backported to GoSC 2010 branch.
- If patch is intrusive, it's will be better to use GoSC2010 branch.

Don't forget that trunk is stable used in production, and we trying to
stabilize this code now. We plan 1.8 and probably 1.9 release including
minors changes.

I hope these tips will help you in this task...

Best

Gilles Caulier

2011/1/4 Gabriel Voicu <ping.gabi at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> Thank you very much, Martin, for the ideas! They indeed sound good for this
> kind of project.
>
> Gabriel
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I remember seeing couple UI mockups here on ML, but noone really got
>> through (what happened to that new statusbar thinggy?). So maybe after
>> some consultation with Gilles or Marcel, you could work on these. Also
>> adding some decent animations could refresh the UI. You could also
>> help porting the rest of Qt3 stuff to Qt4/kdelibs (btw. the thumbbar
>> centering of the selected image doesn't work, I tried to fix that, but
>> with no luck. Also the Qt4 views have better methods for handling
>> this).
>>
>> That's all I can think of right now :)
>>
>> Marty
>>
>> On Monday, January 3, 2011, Gabriel Voicu <ping.gabi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> > ROSEDU (Romanian Open Source Education) people are organising an Open
>> Source Development Course, where they teach a group of selected students
>> (aprox. 30 students) about tools used in open source development. Also,
>> during the course, the students will be grouped in teams of 3-4 to work on a
>> contribution to an existing open-source software. Each group of students is
>> coordanated by a menthor.
>> >
>> > Because I participated in the last year GSoC, the organisers invited me
>> to be a menthor for a team and propose a project related to Digikam/KIPI
>> Plugins. Now, I would like to know if you have some junior jobs for Digikam
>> or KIPI Plugins that will not involve more than 5-6 hours/week for 7-8
>> weeks. The projects should contains easy things to do, like modifying a UI
>> or make some small changes in different parts of Digikam. I mention that the
>> course will be from the start of March until the the start/middle of May.
>> >
>> > If you have any ideas, please tell me as soon as possible, because I
>> should speak with the organisers until Wednesday 5th January. Also, it's no
>> problem if you tell me after 5th January. :-)
>> >
>> > Best wishes,
>> > Gabriel
>> >
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