Fwd: GSoC 2016 Proposal for KDE Dolphin

[Myriam Schweingruber]

FYI, I presume kfm-devel is the correct list for Dolphin.


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From: Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: GSoC 2016 Proposal for KDE Dolphin
To: Frameworks Devel <kde-devel at kde.org>


Hi all, especially Dolphin and Baloo devs,

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Arnav Dhamija <arnav.dhamija at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm excited to give the GSoC a shot this year. I am a first CSc
> undergraduate at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus in India. I have an original
> idea for the Dolphin file manager to make it easy to select files from
> disjoint directory trees.
>
> I have written the proposal I will submit to KDE here: https://goo.gl/BYOWdG
>
> I look forward to the feedback of the KDE community on this idea and this
> proposal : )
>
> arnav dhamija

Arnav is very enthusiastic about improving Dolphin, but has been
getting not much help from the community thus far. His patch is
sitting in Reviewboard with no replies. [1]

Do we want Dolphin to continue? An application with no developers will
slowly bit-rot. So I would ask any of you who have an interest to read
over Arnav's proposal and give him some feedback. Same with his patch.
If you feel you could mentor him in his proposal or something else
related, please talk to him about it.

GSoC is our chance to draw new developers to our community. It does
take some work, however! If you don't think you could be a primary
mentor, how about a backup? It takes a village to grow a child, and a
community to grow a young developer. :-)

Valorie

1. https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127054/

PS: he has had one patch reviewed and shipped:
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126467/. I would ask the same
thoughtful treatment here.

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