Students to work on Plasma

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Saturday, December 28, 2013 09:21:50 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> On Friday 27 December 2013 19:47:36 Artur Souza wrote:

> > You probably have seen my post on planet.kde
> > (http://blog.morpheuz.cc/26/12/2013/open-academy-and-kde/) about
> > OpenAcademy and the possibility of sponsoring students to work on KDE.
> >
> > I would love to have some students working on Plasma, but for that we
> > need mentors. Anyone willing to take the challenge?
> 
> I don't think we will have problems finding mentors, I think the problem is 
> finding topics  Currently it's difficult as we are in the middle of porting
> and I assume that tasks like "port n plasmoids" is unsuited for
> OpenAcademy.
> 
> The only ideas I have for projects goes in the direction of unit testing.
> We  are lacking here in Plasma and need to think about it. In that area I
> would be willing to mentor and have already experience in mentoring
> (mentored a BSc for unit testing KWin which is still unmerged).

One thing would be to port away from various occurrences of kde4support usage, 
this can even be quite fine-grained, is not necessarily (but possibly!) hard 
to do, and very useful.
-- 
sebas

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