GSOC 2010 - Community Integration

Thu Feb 25 15:43:23 UTC 2010

thanks for the information!

Aubowan! (A way of greeting in Sri Lanka)

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:

> Arunoda Susiripala, 25.02.2010:
> > I really like this project of the community integration.
> > I think which is a thing that most free IDE's lacks..
> >
> > anyway GSOC will be started accepting mentoring organization's from March
> 8
> > and official coding starting from May 24th .
> > full timeline can be obtained here [0]
> >
> > anyway If I say about my dev experiences..
> > I'm not a QT developer :) yet! but I know how to tackle with C++
> >
> > and I'm a PHP developer and I've hacked many projects like Joomla!, WP,
> > Elgg and Dot Project, PHPBB3.
> >
> > that's because my last soc project is about a Integration platform. [1]
> > and I've integrate Google Friend Connekt with Elgg [2]
> >
> > I thought to come into KDevelop because I like challenges and I need a
> > change. (from PHP world :) )
> >
> > anyway I've found that KDevelop is a really Good IDE and I'would love to
> be
> > a part of It..
> > So anyway I'm starting to learning QT.
> >
> > can anyone suggest some information meterials to get start development
> with
> > KDevelop.
>
> For Qt:
> See the tutorials on http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/index.html which will
> give
> you a nice introduction. But this is mainly the GUI part  of Qt
> programming,
> that you won't need so much when programming in KDevelop. There you more
> need
> an idea about what the Qt Core library provides you with, and how to use
> the
> KDevplatform framework.
>
> For KDevelop:
> You can look at some of the "simpler" plugins. For example the Snippet one
> (kdevplatform/plugins/snippet), documentswticher, grepview... Especially
> the
> latter could need some help so maybe you could get started by improving it?
> There are some bugreports for it. And things like context menu (find word
> under
> cursor / find selection) are missing. And well, as soon as you use it
> you'll
> probably find more places which could be improved. Just an idea.
>
> These plugins would give you an overview of how KDevelop integrates
> plugins,
> how one can add toolviews and utilize them.
>
> The more complex parts like Debugger, VCS and Language Support integration
> are
> harder to get into. But for language integration, I would say the CSS
> plugin
> would be a good starting point. It has a small code base.
>
> > [0] -
> >
> http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timel
> > ine
> >
> > [1] - http://jconnekt.org
> >
> > [2] -
> >
> http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-friend-connect-and-elgg
> .
> > html
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > >  On 25.02.10 00:24:33, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 23:18:19 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > > On 24.02.10 21:43:14, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > > > > > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 20:42:55 Arunoda Susiripala wrote:
> > > > > > > This is my Hello World.
> > > > > > > I'm really Interested about the idea that is about Community
> > > > > > > Integration [0]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As much as I'd like to see you work on KDevelop, I doubt it will
> > > > > > work
> > >
> > > out
> > >
> > > > > > with a GSoC. KDevelop is immensely complicated and you did not
> yet
> > > > > > do any commits or got acquainted with the project in any way as
> > > > > > far as I can see. Sadly, the last years have shown that "new
> > > > > > blood" is - most
> > >
> > > of
> > >
> > > > > > the time - not really capable of doing useful work for KDevelop
> in
> > >
> > > such
> > >
> > > > > > a small timeframe as GSoC.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > How should I start communicating on this. Is that OK to send my
> > > > > > > proposal here?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you are interested in KDevelop, please start to write patches
> or
> > >
> > > give
> > >
> > > > > > feedback. Get involved and if you stick around you can maybe do a
> > >
> > > GSoC
> > >
> > > > > > next year. But if you are looking for a GSoC project I fear you
> are
> > >
> > > at
> > >
> > > > > > the wrong place. Keep looking, I bet there are tons of other
> > >
> > > interesting
> > >
> > > > > > projects that are easier for newcomers to achieve.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry to say so, but are you nuts? GSoC starts in june or july,
> > > > > there's plenty of time to get accustomed to the codebase in the
> next
> > > > > 3-4 months - unless you want to do something for duchain. But even
> > > > > that is
> > >
> > > possible
> > >
> > > > > if the student is a good capable hacker. And the fact that Arunoda
> > > > > suceeded in a previous SoC suggests that he's at least worth having
> a
> > > > > try.
> > > >
> > > > It starts in july? Didn't it finish in like august the past years? I
> > >
> > > thought it
> > >
> > > > would start soon.
> > >
> > > I said june or july. Anyway, last year it started May 24th, which is
> > > about 3 months away. I didn't yet check wether they posted a timeline
> > > already for this year.
>
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> Milian Wolff
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