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

[Inge Wallin]

On Sunday, March 02, 2014 14:38:26 Anuj Pahuja wrote:
> Thanks for the support Roney. I proposed the idea in the kde-devel channel
> in IRC and received mixed reviews. As per them, it's a very doable and
> worthwhile project for the summer but is easy and would not take much time
> to implement. So could anyone help me narrowing down the scope of my
> project or add should I port to QML/QtQuick as well for it to be a
> reasonable project?

Hi Anuj,

Let me be very clear here: My mail had absolutely nothing to do with you 
personally.  I am very happy that you are working on the games and helping out 
the community. And I am sorry if what I wrote made you feel as if I was 
attacking you.

Actually I thought for some time before sending the mail because I realized 
that it could sound a bit harsh.  But then I decided that being clear was 
better than the alternative so I sent it after all.

	-Inge

> Regards
> 
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Roney Gomes <roney477 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Anuj proved himself already. I mentored him on last SoK when we worked
> > on two new features for KBounce. Unluckily I am not available for
> > mentoring him again as GSoC will require much more responsibility and
> > available time, which I currently lack.
> > 
> > I really enjoyed his idea though, and considering it is not extremely
> > tied to KDE Games itself, any person well versed in KF5 won't have
> > much trouble mentoring him.
> > --
> > Roney
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