From kde-active  Sun Apr 28 17:55:09 2013
From: Kevin Krammer <krammer () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:55:09 +0000
To: kde-active
Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] Kontact Touch GSOC Project
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On Sunday, 2013-04-28, Michael Bohlender wrote:

> > doing them strictly one after another. in order to make sure that we at
> > least
> > have _something_ working in the end, come what may.
> > Maybe you can chop your work into different UI parts which each get a
> > design
> > and an implementation cycle, instead of one big design cycle folowed by
> > one big implementation cycle.
>=20
> Sounds very reasonable to me.
> I divided the work into 5 tasks:
> # general layout
> # mail list
> # display mail
> # compose mail
> # folder (or whatever way we come up to browse the mail)
>=20
> We could do 4 of them working 3 weeks on each task with a qml
> mockup/prototype followed by the actual implementation.
> I can use the idle time (waiting for your feedback) during each mockup
> phase to do small tasks like porting a button or things like that.

Sounds reasonable.

> I am a little worried that the whole project is too much work for me in t=
he
> given time. Like stated before "asking for a full rewrite of a mail
> application UI within a single GSOC is asking for a bit much". If I don't
> progress as expected we could skip one of the above tasks and instead foc=
us
> on polishing the remaining three.

That can usually be decided during the course of GSoC, basically a joint=20
decision by mentor and student.
It is almost always better to have a smaller ser of deliverables completed=
=20
than to have the orginal set in various stages of completion.

> Going completely crazy: The whole project looks a lot more achievable if I
> pick Tasks or Notes instead of Mail...
> But I guess we can't come up with a UX that will work across Kontact Touch
> as some problems will only show with complex applications like Mail ?

I think it would be OK either way from the PIM perspective, but I guess the=
 PA=20
people really want the mail functionality.

> I think we need to start earlier with the mockups for the general design =
as
> we wont have that much time during the GSoC period as I hoped. I
> will try to come up with some Pencil mockups next weeks so that we have a
> head start.

Very cool!
We should also check if we can tailor the GSoC work such that it fits bette=
r=20
into the the given timeframe.

Cheers,
Kevin
=2D-=20
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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