[Kde-hardware-devel] Bof in akademy

[Jan Grulich]

Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 26 June 2013 17:51:57 Àlex Fiestas wrote:
>
> >Hi there !
>
> Hi,
>
> >Bof scheduling has been opened, I have "booked" a room for a big part 
> of the
>
> >day on Thursday (far from QtCS and other activities)
>
> >
>
> >http://community.kde.org/Akademy/2013/Thursday#Room_A3_-_18_July
>
> >
>
> >My idea for the sprint is:
>
> >10:15 we start, doing a wrap up of the things we are doing
>
> > Work together in the things we need to address, for example first
>
> >release of plasma-nm, or improving Audio in KDE.
>
> plasma-nm has two regressions to fix before any release: 1. Bluetooth 
> connection creation. Bluedevil calles networkmanagement_configshell 
> for this, we need to implement something that works for both 
> networkmanagement and plasma-nm. 2. Port the import/export vpn 
> settings feature from networkmanagement.
>
I think we can implement these missing features with Lukás( before 
Akademy starts so we will be able to make the first release.
>
> There is also the change to make plasma-nm use the same secrets stored 
> in kwallet that networkmanagement uses. This is to simplify the 
> migration process from networkmanagement to plasma-nm.
>
I'll do it right now :)
>
> After al those things fixed/implemented we can release plasma-nm, 
> receive the feedback and start fixing the bugs reported. I am 
> expecting a lot of bugs to be reported once we release plasma-nm, some 
> of them are going to be missing features that are implemented in 
> networkmanagement. We should take those missing features seriously, 
> removing features was one of the main complaints about KDE 4 long ago 
> when it was first released. I would not like that to happen to plasma-nm.
>
> Another thing that plasma-nm needs is a usability study. I do not know 
> if we can do that during the BoF, but at least I would like everybody 
> there to send me their oppinions about what can be improved.
>
The biggest usability issue is probably that activating of some 
connection is possible only via small icon so we should find some better 
way how to do that. The second thing is that all feedback about 
usability and what should be improved should be addressed mainly to me.
>
> >13:45 (after lunch) until end of day we have :D
>
> >
>
> >During hacking we can go to other bof if needed, of have meetings 
> with other
>
> >people (even within the Bof) for example with multimedia, usability, etc.
>
> >
>
> >What do you think?
>
> That is ok to me. There is this bug in kmix that I would like to help 
> fixing:
>
Ok for me as well
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317926
>
> There is also the ark2 patches in my scratch repo that needs more 
> reviewing. But that depends on Raphael's schedule and he has been 
> almost unavailable since last year :-(. Raphael is Ark's maintainer.
>
> -- 
>
> Lamarque V. Souza
>
> KDE's Network Management maintainer
>
> http://planetkde.org/pt-br
>
>
-- 
Jan Grulich
Red Hat Czech, s.r.o
jgrulich at redhat.com
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