Getting involved in SoK

[Carl Schwan]

Hi,

Le mercredi, novembre 18, 2020 5:07 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> a écrit :

> Including Timothée who will be co-mentoring the project. :)
>
> Aleix
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 5:03 AM Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 10:42 AM Mariam Fahmy mariamfahmy66 at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > Thanks alot for helping me.
> > > I have basically understand what you have provided me, what next step shall I do to start in this project?
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, 3:40 pm Aleix Pol, aleixpol at kde.org wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 7:37 PM Mariam Fahmy mariamfahmy66 at gmail.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > Thanks alot for your advice.
> > > > > I have installed the project locally and I start discovering how backends work with codebase.
> > > > > I have understood but I am missing things.
> > > > > After doing some research and gathering information, here's what I can't clearly understand: (Sorry if questions are little bit silly)
> > > >
> > > > Hi Mariam,
> > > > No need to worry, feel free to ask away.
> > > >
> > > > > 1- what does it mean by resource?
> > > > > When I searched about it, I found that resources may be data required by user or requests from clients, is it right ?
> > > >
> > > > You can see here the class that defines a resource, should help you
> > > > see what it represents:
> > > > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/blob/master/libdiscover/resources/AbstractResource.h
> > > > In general, it's an asset: be it an application, a wallpaper or
> > > > anything that can be listed and installed.
> > > >
> > > > > 2- to create a new resources backend we need to implement two classes,
> > > > > The first class is the basic class which saves all created resources and install & remove application or cancel transactions.
> > > > > The second class, I didn't understand it's functionality, I found that it is related to plugins but didn't understand it.
> > > >
> > > > The second important one is the resource I just mentioned above.
> > > > Please explain a bit more what you don't understand.
> > > >
> > > > > 3-Filters in the base class: its target to filter the new requested resources?
> > > >
> > > > filters we just use when searching, to see what's being searched.
> > > > In the case of this project it shouldn't be very important, since we
> > > > will just be listing a system image.
> > > >
> > > > > 4- for each new resource backend, it should include all the methods of base class, right?
> > > > > As these methods acts as properties for each new resource.
> > > >
> > > > You need to implement all the abstract (i.e. virtual = 0) methods. The
> > > > rest of virtuals you can override if you want to give it a different
> > > > functionality.
> > > >
> > > > > 5- I have searched about plugins, but I didn't fully understand it, plugins enable programmers to update host program while keeping the user within the program's environment, but I can't understand what is the role of plugins here if we receive new requests and make new resources?
> > > > > It is meant that while creating a new resource, we need plugin in order to keep the user with the program's environment without altering it or affecting it while creating new resources?
> > > >
> > > > It's just a way to build the applications so the whole project doesn't
> > > > depend on a specific technology. You can see the ones we implement
> > > > right now here:
> > > > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/tree/master/libdiscover/backends
> > > > This project should be adding a new OSTreeRPMBackend folder in here
> > > > that will only take care of this one implementation.
> > > > I hope this helps,
> > > > Aleix
> >
> > Adding the mentors list to know what the exact process for students is.
> > Mariam, in the meantime, if you want to start working on it or want to
> > have some kind of call to get started, tell me and I'll see to it.
> > Aleix

I just finished fixing the last few issues in the new season.kde.org website.
The timeline hasn't been published yet, but I hope Caio will soon publish it.

But you should already be able to start writing a proposal. There is some
instructions about that in https://community.kde.org/GSoC#Student_proposal_guidelines.
This is for GSoC but SoC is similar.

Mentors should create an account in season.kde.org and request their mentor
account. And then after I accept their request, should be able to see the proposals
and comment them, if there is no bug in the software ;)

Cheers,
Carl