[kde-services-devel] Description of 4 current projects of mine

[Frank Karlitschek]

Hi,

think it makes sense to introduce myself too.

I'm running KDE-Look.org, KDE-App.org and KDE-Files.org
I also running the GHNS feeds on http://download.kde.org/khotnewstuff/...
at the moment there are:

wallpapers
emoticons
kopetestyles
icons
soundthemes
colorschemes
mousethemes
fonts
kdmthemes
kword
kspread
kpresenter
oowriter
oocalc
ooimpress
korganizercalenders
umbrello
krita
kexi
karbon14
kstars
quantascripts
quantatoolbar
amarokthemes
oodraw
oobase
scribus
inkscape
karamba
kalva
kalva-qprofile
kalva-hwprofile
kopetesyles12
kritascripts
kexiscripts
kolfcourses
tellicotemplates
kspreadscripts
kdenlive
plasmoids
kword2scripts
kspread2scripts
krita2scripts

I also launched openDesktop.org a few days ago as a new desktop-agnostic 
Website.

At the moment I am working on a GHNS2 compatible api.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions or feature requests. :-)


Cheers
Frank



On Monday 23 July 2007, Josef Spillner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> several people have joined the list already. Let's assume that some of them
> are interested in what services are already in development.
>
> Here's the list of projects I'm personally involved with:
>
> * The KDE Games Server (play.kde.org).
> --------------------------------------
> The site setup is currently being requested from sysadmin.
> It's not supposed to be an informative page (as we have games.kde.org for
> this purpose already), but instead it's an interactive application which
> offloads most of its work to the GGZ Community server (ggzcommunity.org)
> using RESTful Web Service APIs.
> KDE players will enjoy the usual KDE-style web pages, while all the
> administration of games and players runs centrally on the Community site.
> Once play.kde.org becomes more popular, we intend to mirror the main
> database so that read access (e.g. for the statistics) can be faster.
> Once it becomes even more popular, we'll have enough players to start
> a dedicated games server for KDE. For the time being, the individual
> communities do not have enough players, so they all play on Community.
>
> SVN access:
> svn://svn.ggzgamingzone.org/svn/trunk/playground/community/play.kde.org
>             svn://svn.ggzgamingzone.org/svn/trunk/community/api
> Hosting: http://play.kde.org [requested] on the kstuff.org Xen server
>
> * Commitfilter (commitfilter.kde.org).
> --------------------------------------
> This has been running for a long time already.
> It consists of a web frontend (PHP) with some backend scripts (Perl).
> Recent additions include filtering by regular expressions, which is
> horribly broken and needs to be fixed before the next release.
> I already thought about whether it makes sense to drop Commitfilter
> completely and rely on CIA's new filtering capabilities instead. But there
> were a couple of KDE-specific thing which we would lose. Maybe it still
> makes sense to share the filtering language.
>
> SVN access: svn://svn.kstuff.org/kstuffsvn/trunk/commitfilter
> Hosting: http://commitfilter.kde.org on the kstuff.org Xen server
>
> * Hotstuff.
> -----------
> In development for a long time, and used in production mode for
> several small projects, but not for KDE yet.
> It consists mainly of backend scripts (Perl), although a template-based
> simple frontend is available (PHP, named Cocodrilo).
> Hotstuff is supposed to contain all the latest and greatest features
> of GHNS. Where/how to host it is not clear yet. One idea was to have
> data.kde.org, but we could also leave it where it is and simply replicate
> the downloads to download.kde.org.
> In the long term, a couple of its features are supposed to go into
> kde-look.org/kde-files.org. In particular, the SOAP-based communication
> was requested to be possible with REST also, and I think this can be
> done. I should really invest more time into Hotstuff.
>
> SVN access: svn://svn.kstuff.org/kstuffsvn/trunk/hotstuff
> Hosting: http://new.kstuff.org temporarily
>
> * OpenID.
> ---------
> This is actually a cross-project effort. Right now, GGZ Community
> has an OpenID implementation, and based on that I started Evidence which
> is supposed to run in Hotstuff and eventually also in GGZ Community.
> For the backend, a database is used, although there was the idea of
> using LDAP since several applications can authenticate against LDAP
> directly.
> For desktop integration, there is OpenDesktopID.
>
> SVN access: svn://svn.kstuff.org/kstuffsvn/trunk/evidence
>             svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/libs/webtech
> Hosting: not yet, only localhost :-)
>
> That's all for now.
>
> Josef
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Frank Karlitschek
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