[Ktechlab-devel] A review of the year 2010 from ktechlab perspective

[Zoltan Padrah]

  Happy new year for everybody on the mailing list!

  In this email I'd like to summarize what happened with the project in  
2010 and lay out the plans for 2011.

  The main goal for 2010 was to release a port of ktechlab on Qt4/KDE4. I  
think this is still the main goal. The progress is slow, but the release  
will happen.

  During the first half of the year, we worked on defining interfaces  
between program components. This is needed for a modular ktechlab, which  
should be more easy to maintain and extend. In the current state, about  
half of the work is done in this direction.

  The other direction of development has been to separate the user  
interface code from the actual simulation code in the old codebase. The  
simulation should be reused, while the user interface should be provided  
by kdevplatform and plugins for it.

  Also in 2010, kdevelop 4.0 has been released, which helps development  
quite significantly. We have documentation for developing ktechlab:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ktechlab/index.php?title=Coding_with_KDevelop

  I'm placing the link to the main wiki page here, because it is one of the  
main sources for documentation for the project:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ktechlab/index.php?title=Main_Page

  The other documentation sources are the doxygen-style documentation,  
embedded in the sources, and the end-user documentation (which will have  
to be updated before a new release).

  It also worth noting that discussions happened not only on the mailing  
list, but also in IRC (#ktechlab on Freenode). This way I think we were  
communicating more efficiently than by using only the mailing list.

  This concludes my short review. Probably this list is not complete, so  
anybody is welcome to add what he/she thinks is missing.

  Best regards,
   Zoltan