[Kde-games-devel] GSoC 2010

[Eugene Trounev [it-s]]

I am with Parker on this one. KDEGames is in a sleep mode now.
How about we yield our spots at GSoC this year to Gluon project? Gluon is 
active, and it aims to bring easy and accessible entertainment content to KDE, 
and QT platforms, which is something that KDEGames is also after. We therefore 
are direct beneficiaries to Gluon's success and accelerated completion. :)

On Wednesday 27 January 2010 10:57:37 Parker Coates wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:38, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Lydia's message to kde-soc@ reminded me that it's that time of the year
> > again, when we need to think about whether/how we want to participate in
> > Google Summer of Code.
> >
> > Last year was a quite successful year in the number of kdegames projects
> > that were funded, but not so much when it comes to the actual outcome. At
> > least, I haven't seen any activity on Mancala, Parsek, and Kolf lately.
> > Regarding the last one: mea culpa. Kolf has had unexpected problems in
> > its overall design, which completely messed up the schedule and such for
> > the GSoC project.
> >
> > Apart from these special problems, we need to investigate now what went
> > wrong and how we can do better this year. I think a big factor in this is
> > communication: No one of our three students of last year is writing on
> > this mailing list anymore, and I remember only Zeng writing at least one
> > or two times, which I attribute to my poking. Situation on IRC is
> > similar, although I cannot comment on this point very good because I'm
> > hardly ever using IRC, too.
> >
> > A second possible issue is that kdegames is not a united big project like
> > Plasma or Amarok, it's more of a coordinated effort to create multiple
> > applications. Big parts of our codebase are maintained by only one
> > person. In such an environment, it's harder for newbies to become part of
> > the community. (I hope you get my point here.)
> >
> > So, RFC: What can we do to make this year's GSoC a success? And the
> > second question: Are there any project ideas?
> >
> > Actually, I have a project idea, but I have to leave now.
> 
> Personally, I'm thinking that maybe KDEGames should pass on GSoC this
> year. It was great that we got so many slots last year, but as you
> mentioned the overall outcome wasn't great. It might be wise to give
> this summer's slots to KDE subprojects that could better put them to
> use.
> 
> KDEGames has reached a bit of an awkward point. The community in
> general is pretty inactive. We have a lot of games in SVN, but very
> few active maintainers. I fear using GSoC to add more games to the
> module will only result in more abandonware. The work that really
> needs done is polishing/bug fixing/maintenance of our existing games,
> but my understanding is that such work isn't really eligible for a
> GSoC because it has hard to define goals and isn't terribly sexy.
> (Which makes sense, I think.)
> 
> Now of course, if someone has a great suggestion for a project that
> would improve the quality of our current code base, then we should
> certainly consider it.
> 
> Parker
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