Software engineering in KDE

[Bill Hoffman]

Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've started a techbase page on some of the different aspects of software
> engineering in KDE.
> 
> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Software_Engineering_Framework
> 
> The idea is that if we know what we're using we might be able to standardise
> more around things like review-board and whatever else parts of KDE use
> that I don't know about.
> 
> Please update it if you have any more information. 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve.
> 

This is really nice.  I really would like to see more use of CDash 
www.cdash.org in KDE projects.

It would fit in very well here:

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Software_Engineering_Framework#Testing_and_Quality

For those that don't know CDash a web based dashboard system, has its 
roots in applying Six Sigma quality metrics to software development at 
GE CRD.    For a quick history, you can read 
http://www.cdash.org/about.html.  We use this process for all of the 
projects at Kitware, and once you have used the process for a short 
time, it is hard to imagine developing software without it (Just ask 
Alex).   Kitware is currently hosting a CDash dashboard for kdelibs here:

http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=kdelibs

However, no one seems to have committed to setting up clients to submit 
to it.   There is some data here: 
http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=kdelibs&date=20080629

But, only 12 builds have been submitted so far.  :(

For a dashboard with lots of data you can see the one for CMake:
http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=CMake

Or, any of the other open source projects at Kitware:
http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php


-Bill