[Kde-games-devel] Porting KDE game/games to KDE Frameworks 5

[Inge Wallin]

On Friday, February 28, 2014 09:27:46 Anuj Pahuja wrote:
> I would like to know if there are any plans for porting KDE Games to KDE
> Frameworks 5 soon. I would like to do that as a GSoC project if someone
> likes this idea and is willing to mentor.
> 
> A little background about me :
> I have been using KDE for the past 1.5 years and really like spending my
> time playing KBlocks, KBounce, KGoldrunner and many other games. I
> participated in KDE SoC 2013 where I worked with Roney on adding keyboard
> support and Saving feature to KBounce.

Hi Anuj,

I think porting to KF5 is a very worthwhile project and it would fit well as a 
GSoC project. In fact we had these exact types of projects when we went from 
KDE3 / Qt 3 to KDE4 / Qt 4.

However, there are two issues, and I will be brutally frank here:

1. We need to have a mentor for such a project.  Somebody has to step up and 
volunteer.

2. We (KDE as a whole, not specifically the games group) has had some pretty 
bad experiences with people who just go into the GSoC, does  mediocre job and 
then disappear. So the general consensus nowadays seems to be that we will not 
take any students who have not proven themselves beforehand that they are 
willing to enter the community, learn the code, work inside the community and 
generally be valuble community members in their own right.

So if you are serious about this, I suggest to start working now already. Not 
only will that show your qualities, you will also increase your chances of 
pulling it off during the GSoC itself.

	-.Inge
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