Project on cosource.com

[Stefan Preble]

Tim,

I'm interested in working on this. I will obtain htDig very soon to assess
how large of an undertaking this will be. As the other bidder states, I'm
not sure how willing the maintainers of kdevelop will be to add this to the
main codebase. However, since htDig will more so be an option as opposed to
a replacement I don't think it'll be that hard to obtain approval.
If I do take up the project I will accept your proposed amount of $1000. I
will donate a portion of this money to kdevelop but the amount I donate will
depend on how much time it takes me to implement htDig into kdevelop and the
difficulty.
I highly encourage someone else to join me in this project and I will be
more than willing to split the money evenly.

Stefan F. Preble
sfp2322 at rit.edu


> I represent Lineo, an vendor of Linux for embedded systems.
> We are interested in kdevelop as a development tool, and are
> specifically interested in using it as a fully functional development
> environment, with as few legal or licensing barriers as possible.
>
> To this end, we have posted a project at:
>
> http://www.cosource.com/cgi-bin/cos.pl/wish/info/136
>
> The gist of the project is that we would like to see htDig (or some
> other free indexing system) available as a search engine in
> kdevelop.  This need not exclude the use of glimpse (which is the
> current search engine), but could be provided as an option.  Glimpse
> is a powerful and useful tool, but is currently non-free for
> redistribution.
>
> We are willing to commit $1000 (US) to the project.  Already there
> is one proposal outstanding as a bid on the project. The bid is
> for slightly more that our advertised interest level.
>
> I thought I would advertise the project request here, in case a
> kdevelop expert was willing to work on it.  The one party that
> bid on the project was concerned about his ability to get the
> code integrated back into the main code base.  Can any one of the
> main developers comment on the likelihood or unlikelihood of that?
>
> Obviously, a pure volunteer could perform this project and
> donate the revenue to the kdevelop project (if that's possible).
> Or some starving kdevelop developer could use the money to feed
> themself and their family.
>
> We don't have the time or engineering staff to perform this work
> ourselves, but are interested in promoting or sponsoring the
> work to (hopefully) everyone's eventual benefit.
>
> Any responses on the appropriateness of this type of funding,
> or willingness to participate in this project, would be appreciated.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> Tim Bird                                  Lineo, Inc.
> Chief Technology Officer                  383 South 520 West
> tbird at lineo.com                           Lindon, UT 84042