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

Wed Jan 5 12:02:35 GMT 2011

4th IDEA :
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In AdvancedSlideshow, there are some easy fix reports about GUI :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122284

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261862

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240147

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238598

More complex :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130786

Gilles Caulier

2011/1/5 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>

> THIRD IDEA :
> ---------------
>
> This entry, about WallPaper plugin can be done. It's not too complex i
> think :
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254932
>
> The goal is to be able to post an image in desktop backgroud. This tool
> existed for KDE3, not KDE4 due a lack of feature in Plasma.
>
> This require probably something to do in Plasma code (an xml config file to
> create, i'm not sure)
>
> Else, there is api available in KDELibs. Review bug file comment for
> details.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2011/1/5 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
>
> In MetadaEdit plugin there are some easy fix entries, i think :
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251349
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208500
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203047
>>
>> A little bit more complex is this one :
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251278
>>
>> Gilles
>>
>> 2011/1/5 Gabriel Voicu <ping.gabi at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Gilles,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for this long answer! I will speak today with the
>>> organisers and see what they have to say.
>>>
>>> Also, be sure that I was not thinking in starting a junior job project
>>> inside digikam's core, because it's under heavy development for the 2.0
>>> version. The ideal project would be modifying a GUI for a plugin(album or
>>> KIPI, doesn't matter).
>>> Do you have in mind a plugin that should need GUI refactoring? If yes,
>>> please let me know, because I couldn't find any example on Bugzilla.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Gabriel Voicu
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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