Help proposal for Akregator

[Volker Krause]

Very happy about this, thanks a lot for stepping up! :)

On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 00:10:40 CEST Pierre wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Those of you following IRC or git commits may have noticed I contributed a
> few patches to Akregator in the last days. I am an avid user of Akregator.
> My archives are more than 10 years old (who want to read back the
> announcement of Qt 4.4 TP 1 ?), over 700 000 articles… I initially proposed
> patches paving the way to have a SQL archive backend, because I don't feel
> safe having 2GB of files almost impossible to backup and unusable outside
> akregator. And thus I started digging in the code, fixing performance
> issues…
> And after some discussion with Laurent Montel, I would like to officialy
> offer my help maintaining Akregator. I can't promise I would be the best
> maintainer ever, not even an acceptable one (I've got other codebases and
> some other time intensive hobbies…), but I'm willing to help fix
> Akregator's bugs, implement a few features…
> And if that's ok with you, I plan working on performance, memory usage, and
> on the SQL backend (it's in alpha-state, but working), to get rid of
> metakit and a huge amount of issues it comes with. Before somebody asks :
> porting to Akonadi right now is not possible for me, if you want an
> akonadi-powered akregator, you will have less pain rewriting it… and I
> don't have enough time to spare to do that. :)
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
>  Pierre

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