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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Google SoC Project Idea: Kate Feature Extension
From:       Vic Fryzel <vic () shellsage ! com>
Date:       2007-03-18 1:46:07
Message-ID: 200703172146.08073.vic () shellsage ! com
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I have submitted the official proposal to Google for this Summer of Code 
project.

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Vic Fryzel (vic at shellsage dot com)
http://shellsage.com/
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On Sunday 25 February 2007 11:14:58 pm Vic Fryzel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd very much like to contribute to KDE via the Google Summer of Code.   I
> think that I have two good project ideas (the second of which is listed
> below), and have no problem putting forth the required effort to contribute
> features.   I've already contributed patches to the KDE project, am an
> active Gentoo developer, and develop a lot of open source software in my
> spare time.
>
> Please take the time to review, comment on, and build on my proposal, and I
> very much appreciate any feedback.   I'll submit it officially as soon as
> the web interface for proposal submissions is available.
>
> My preliminary official project proposal for extending Kate follows:
>
> Who are you? What are you studying?
> My name is Vic Fryzel.   I'm pursuing a B.S. and M.S. in Software
> Engineering.
>
> What exactly do you intend to do? What will not be done?
> It is my intent to make Kate a much more capable yet still lightweight
> development tool for KDE4.  I will add features to Kate including CVS and
> SVN integration (either via recognition of the kdesvn or kcvs utilities, or
> with a custom implementation), Eclipse-like workspace and project
> management, and build environment integration for various languages/tools
> via an extensible interface.  I intend to scale Kate as much as needed to
> accomodate these changes, and not beyond that (at least for the scope of
> this project).
>
> Why are you the right person for this task?
> I'm the right person for the task because I have substantial open source
> software development experience, a significant will to see Kate and KDE
> become more popular and widely used, and use both KDE and Kate on a
> daily basis.  I also use other development tools such as Quanta, Eclipse,
> and vi, so I know what features Kate could use to become a very light
> development tool with more powerful features.  I'm also familiar with Qt
> and the KDE libraries.
>
> How many hours are you going to work on this a week?
> I'm prepared to work as many as 30-40 hours per week on this project.   My
> other commitments include my full-time day job as a software engineer.
>
> Are you comfortable working independently under a remote supervisor or
> mentor? I'm comfortable working independently under a supervisor or mentor
> who is at a remote location.   I'd set weekly goals for the project, and
> discuss these goals and my progess weekly (or less frequently based upon
> the requirements of the mentor) with my mentor.   I've already had
> experience with this sort of thing in becoming a Gentoo developer, where a
> large number of the developers live in Europe, and I live in the U.S.
>
> What is your native language?
> My native language is English.
>
> Where do you live?
> I live in Rochester, NY, USA;   a local mentor would be spectacular, but
> I've yet to meet a KDE developer from the area.
>
> To what extent are you familiar with the software you're proposing to work
> with?
> I'm very familiar with Kate and KDE development in general.   I've been
> using KDE since it was included with the late 90s versions of RedHat.   I've
> read the source code but have yet to actually extend Kate.  I'm very
> familiar with C++, Qt, and the KDE libraries, and have used C++ for
> numerous work-related projects.

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