[Kde-finance-apps] Work on Alkimia during SoK

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> this is just so that we can organize ourselves. Here's my proposal for
> the work on Alkimia that came up during this week.
>
> Mukesh and Santosh are students of Season of KDE, so their scope of
> work should be well defined. Brian, I'll check later with you if you
> are interested in getting into SoK, which I think fits your case.
>
> Mukesh will focus on getting a DBus service up and running that will
> allow to input transactions and store them, and then retrieve them by
> a number of parameters.
> Mentors for Mukesh are Klaas and myself.
>
> Santosh's work should be mainly focused on retrieving quotes from a
> storage and then throwing notifications based on a global and
> per-stock configuration. The storage could be a DBus service, a plasma
> datasource, or a file. The notifications could be a systray
> notification (KNotify?), an email or a sms message. The configuration
> should allow to configure notifications when a stock is above/below a
> certain value or percentage of in-day value change, etc. My main point
> is that the storage should be flexible, eg. the application shouldn't
> care much where it gets its data from, and notifications too, eg. we
> don't know what options other people might come up with, so allowing
> for at least 2 or 3 options will help iron out the design.
> Cristian is Santosh's mentor.
>
> Brian, if you are interested, you could work on a DBus service that
> retrieves stock values via web or an import file and stores them for
> later use (that same storage as Mukesh has to use). That DBus service
> should allow for queries (so that Santosh can use it for his
> application). Also, a GUI could be available to show the stored
> stocks, with charts, sheets, et al.
> Cristian, would you agree to co-mentor Brian with me? We have both
> done some work on these areas, so we can help out.

Sure, if Brian is willing to participate.

> Questions, suggestions, and even nitpicking is welcome. :)

It seems to me that you have isolated each task pretty well so work
can be done independently on each module this is a good plan. I've got
a few questions though. Is the development going to take place in
playground/office? Do the students have SVN access? What is the
time-frame of 'Season of KDE'?

Regards,
Cristian