Heads-up: Frameworks branch merged, master now KF5-based

Kevin Funk kfunk at kde.org
Thu Aug 28 08:38:09 UTC 2014


On Thursday 28 August 2014 09:28:20 Laurent Navet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I've now finally merged the frameworks branch of both kdevplatform and
> > kdevelop into their respective master branches. In other words:
> > Both kdevplatform.git and kdevelop.git master are now KF5-based.
> 
> Great !
> 
> > *Further tasks for us developers*
> > 
> > - Please, everyone, have a look at the failing unit tests and try to fix
> > them
> > 
> >   It's important to have reliable tests before working further on the
> >   code.
> > 
> > - There are still lot's of KDE4->KF5 porting tasks open:
> >   Dāvis Mosāns seems to take care of kdevplatform.git right now,
> >   but kdevelop.git still needs some love here.
> >   (@Dāvis, could you comment on the current state?)
> > 
> > - Removal of deprecated API would be good now, too
> > 
> > *Most apparent issues in KDevelop on KF5 right now*
> > 
> > - KTextEditor now provides their own status bar, but we'd like to be able
> > 
> >   to show/hide it on request because it wastes vertical space.
> >   The most clean approach would be a patch in KTE, also see [1]
> > 
> > - CMake manager blocking the UI on project import
> > 
> >   (when parsing compile_commands.json)
> > 
> > - Anything else?
> > 
> > *Overall state of KDevelop on KF5*
> > Seems to be good for daily use already, we've fixed the most annoying
> > issues during the Randa sprint. Windows support is coming along nicely
> > and we want to
> > improve that.
> 
> Maybe it can help to have a trello board, this has been done for kwin
> port[1]. Like this, everyone knows what the others are working on.
> 
> [1]https://trello.com/b/hY9TcRcK/kwin-frameworks

>From what I can see, Milian just created a TODO board [1] for us. It's also a 
kanban board just like on trello.com.

I'd welcome everyone to work with that, as it indeed helps to not duplicate 
work.

[1] https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=show&project_id=20

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