[Okular-devel] Taking a break and an Okular sprint in October

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi guys, I have come to the obvious realization, at the moment I do not have
> enough stamina to review and take care of what needs to be done for Okular, i
> have 162 unread emails in the Okular mail folder, an order of magnitude more
> than the rest of my other folders combined.
>
> So I've decided to take a break, I've been the stalling factor for some
> reviews and that is bad. Okular currently has 31 open review requests in
> reviewboard, not all of them are waiting for me, but some are, sorry for that.
>
> Then there's the dont-use-docdata-for-annots-and-forms branch that Fabio
> [almost] finished years ago. This branch is *very* important since it fixes
> the long standing issue with annotations and form content being silently saved
> but only locally and not on the .pdf file itself. Someone with energy needs to
> go over it and see if it's good enough to be merged, my hunch is that it is.
>
> Two more branches that need attention are gsoc2015_linearization and
> gsoc2015_tag_feature, they looked good enough last year when i did the review
> for GSoC but never had time to properly merge them, i do think they needed
> some poppler patches too, i can help merging them if someone reviews the
> features and they work fine https://github.com/sahebpreet/poppler The notes i
> have are at http://paste.ubuntu.com/20799691/
>
> And then there's the obvious elephant in the room, I don't feel confident on
> merging the frameworks branch into master because I do not see myself having
> the stamina to make sure everything works well enough, but it seems there's
> people around that do, again I don't want to be the stopping factor,
>
> So I will be taking a step sideways and hope for someone to step up with all
> the important work that needs doing.
>
> Obviously I won't be going anywhere, but as I said I don't have much energy
> currently, so things on my side will be slow.
>
> To help with this (and see if I can regain some of my motivation) I'd like to
> have an Okular sprint here in Barcelona, tentative dates 8 to 12 of October,
> would anyone be able to attend?
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert

Hi Albert,
It's unfortunate to read, I'll be happy to join the sprint.

Aleix