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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dilluns, 25 de juliol de 2016, a les 11:42:43 CEST, Olivier Churlaud va 
escriure:
> Hey!
> 
> I'd love to go to Barcelona. If I'm not already having a job or not too
> actively searching, I would love to come :)
> 
> What does it mean for the framework branch: do you intend to work on
> this there? 

There where? On the sprint? Depends on who comes and if it happens what we'd 
be working on.

> Or if someone feels like taking care of it, he should? 

Yes

> Not
> me, but I see that Martin Sandsmark made a *lot* of fixes.
> 
> Cheers
> Olivier
> 
> Le 25/07/2016 à 00:40, Albert Astals Cid a écrit :
> > 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
> 
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