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[Jeremy Whiting]

It's probably a bit short notice to blog about the bug day saturday,
but maybe we should at least change the topic in #kde-devel so those
that lurk and are likely to help will know about it?

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
> Ok, I went ahead and made it official:
> https://community.kde.org/Gardening/systemsettings System Settings,
> the current gardening love project.
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
>> Yes, I agree. Gardening day is a good idea and worked well indeed.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>>> El Diumenge, 23 d'agost de 2015, a les 15:58:47, Jeremy Whiting va escriure:
>>>> Hey gardeners,
>>>>
>>>> I feel a bit responsible that the last love project didn't really get
>>>> anywhere. I spent a bit of time looking into how api.kde.org and ebn
>>>> work, but didn't get even to where I'm able to recreate them here. It
>>>> seems they are a bit complex, but could probably be figured out with a
>>>> bit of time which I didn't spend this past while. Maybe I can in the
>>>> future some time.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, in irc today discussing with d_ed he had the idea of triaging
>>>> systemsettings bugs as a possible love project for gardening. I went
>>>> through the kcm-colors ones last week and responded to them or closed
>>>> the old ones with an explanation saying it seems to work now, reopen
>>>> if you still hit this and can provide more information. As d_ed said
>>>> in his akademy talk about plasma, systemsettings has a lot of old code
>>>> that is unmaintained and is possibly in a bad state. I bet we can
>>>> improve the situation there and may be able to find new maintainers in
>>>> the process. So here's my suggestion for the gardening objectives:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Triage all bugs in the systemsettings product (and maybe the kcm
>>>> product too? since there's overlap tbh).
>>>> 2. If a bug is reproducible still, comment on it and find someone that
>>>> knows how to fix it and convince them to do so.
>>>> 3. Find maintainers for as many of the kcms as we can.
>>>>
>>>> What do you guys think?
>>>
>>> Looks good.
>>>
>>> Should we try to maybe also do a gardening-day besides the "let's everyone do
>>> it when we have some spare minutes?"?
>>>
>>> I find the gardening-day thing worked quite well for krecipes.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   Albert
>>>
>>>>
>>>> BR,
>>>> Jeremy
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