aKademy 2006 - we want your papers.

[Adriaan de Groot]

[[ As a sample, this is my own talk proposal, of a technical nature. I've 
copied the abstract from my desktopcon submission, though the talk will of 
course be different (because it's two months later than DDC, so the EBN will 
have advanced by then). ]]


On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:47, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> Go ahead and write to akademy-talks-2006 at kde.org, we want you there!

For the past year or more I have run the "EnglishBreakfastNetwork", an 
oddly-named machine that applies some kinds of automatic checking to the KDE 
codebase; the machine applies tools, counts up errors and presents both 
summary information and detailed logs to developers in a dashboard-style 
interface. The checking that is done is of a fairly basic nature: API 
documentation and user documentation is checked for syntax and completeness; 
basic coding style and code licensing is monitored as well. Plans exist for 
more checks: a build bot, static checking, UI testing to start with. The 
challenge of the EBN is to develop the checks or integrate existing Free 
Software checking tools to get the numbers on the issues in the codebase. 
Once we have the numbers, a new challenge presents itself: how to present the 
numbers in a fashion so that developers can do something with the numbers. In 
the end the idea is to make the numbers go down and the quality of the 
codebase go up. I will present the design and implementation of the EBN; I 
would like the audience to help out with new checks and new presentation 
forms to improve the efficacy of the system.