--===============9048520883863541855== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3392608.pz6i7q7kFv"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --nextPart3392608.pz6i7q7kFv Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nextPart1954459.9X2VoiQFvJ" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is a multi-part message in MIME format. =2D-nextPart1954459.9X2VoiQFvJ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi folks, sorry for the tremendous delay. I had started working on it almost immediately after the sprint, then got interrupted and found it difficult to continue. Luckily I am having a long train ride right now, so here it is. Martin Klapetek has offered his photos from the sprint, but I seem to have lost the link he had sent me. Martin? I suggest to have at least the "beer train" photo :) Note: the Editor's note is ment to be part of the article, a stab at recent Baloo "leaks" ;-) Cheers, Kevin =2D- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring =2D-nextPart1954459.9X2VoiQFvJ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pim-sprint-2013-11-dot-story.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; name="pim-sprint-2013-11-dot-story.txt" KDE PIM November Sprint =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Earlier this year it was established that "Osnabr=C3=BCck is not a plac= e". Meaning that the KDE PIM spring sprint, which traditionally took pl= ace in Osnabr=C3=BCck, could happen at a different location and still b= e a continuation of the tradition. KDE PIM's autumn sprint has for a couple of years now traditionally bee= n placed in Berlin, but since "Berlin is not a place" applies as well, = this year installment of the sprint took place in Brno. Even people without the expectional deduction skills of Sherlock Holmes= have certainly deduced by now that KDE PIM sprints happen in cities th= at are no places but coincdentally contain the letters B, R and N. So, without further due, the story about the KDE PIM autumn sprint, bro= ught to you by KDE e.V., Red Hat and the letters B, R and N. Early birds =2D---------- Unlike with most other sprints, where all but some local people arrive = on the first day of the sprint, there had already been a week of intens= e KDE hacking been going on. Bob - you remember Bob? - and his merry henchmen from the KDE Barcelona= Squad, had already arrived earlier that week and hacked on various pie= ces of KDE software and had beer delivered to them on trains. Yes, trai= ns! That's the Czech Repulic for you. Notes =2D---- Please note that nobody worked on KNotes. There were plenty of old scho= ol sticky notes though. Because Kevin Ottens likes to draw rectangles o= n white boards and sticky notes are a natural choice for filling them. There were also a lot of notes taken, notably on the outcome of the dic= ussions which were scheduled by moving notes on the whiteboard. This kind of structured handling of topics is a noteworthy improvement = over some of the previous sprints and very necessary given the increase= d number of people who nowardays attend them. Bugs =2D--- As it has become tradition, a significant portion of the meeting was de= dicated to mercilessly squash those nasty little buggers. David Faure, a man who surely need no further introduction, used the pr= esence of several component maintainers to get issues fixed. "Getting f= ixed" meaning he did the actual fixing, being aided by the aforemention= ed component specialists with insight into inner workings and assumptio= ns of the respective code. The previous and current maintainers of Akonadi had fun with things so = deep down in the guts of the system that not even the author of this ar= ticle would be able to fully understand them. Those people are way smar= ter than him! Additional to fixes in the sense of correcting erroneous behavior this = also included several improvements in the area of run time performance.= Progress =2D------- One of the fun aspects of a sprint is, aside from the obvious awesomene= ss of hanging out with great people, is to ponder and prototype potenti= al progressive programming pieces. Mark Gaiser, Michael Bohlender and Thomas Pfeiffer had a closer look at= how to get beyond quaint, dare I say boring, user interfaces and enabl= e QtQuick based applications to tap into the power provided by KDE PIM = libaries. Secrets =2D------ Naturally the presence of the KDE Barcelona Squad made secrecy a paramo= unt objective. Not only do we need to keep their identities confidently= , a job made easy by several Squad members disgusing themselves with en= ormous fake beards, we are bound by oath, under threat of draconian pun= ishment, to not talk about rocket science like advances in PIM data sea= rch. Well, rocket science doesn't even cut it, more likely on the level= of warp science! Editor's note: recent leaks have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do wit= h that. =2D-nextPart1954459.9X2VoiQFvJ-- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --nextPart1954459.9X2VoiQFvJ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi folks, sorry for the tremendous delay. I had started working on it almost immediately after the sprint, then got interrupted and found it difficult to continue. Luckily I am having a long train ride right now, so here it is. Martin Klapetek has offered his photos from the sprint, but I seem to have lost the link he had sent me. Martin? I suggest to have at least the "beer train" photo :) Note: the Editor's note is ment to be part of the article, a stab at recent Baloo "leaks" ;-) Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring --nextPart1954459.9X2VoiQFvJ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pim-sprint-2013-11-dot-story.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; name="pim-sprint-2013-11-dot-story.txt" KDE PIM November Sprint =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Earlier this year it was established that "Osnabr=C3=BCck is not a plac= e". Meaning that the KDE PIM spring sprint, which traditionally took pl= ace in Osnabr=C3=BCck, could happen at a different location and still b= e a continuation of the tradition. KDE PIM's autumn sprint has for a couple of years now traditionally bee= n placed in Berlin, but since "Berlin is not a place" applies as well, = this year installment of the sprint took place in Brno. Even people without the expectional deduction skills of Sherlock Holmes= have certainly deduced by now that KDE PIM sprints happen in cities th= at are no places but coincdentally contain the letters B, R and N. So, without further due, the story about the KDE PIM autumn sprint, bro= ught to you by KDE e.V., Red Hat and the letters B, R and N. Early birds ----------- Unlike with most other sprints, where all but some local people arrive = on the first day of the sprint, there had already been a week of intens= e KDE hacking been going on. Bob - you remember Bob? - and his merry henchmen from the KDE Barcelona= Squad, had already arrived earlier that week and hacked on various pie= ces of KDE software and had beer delivered to them on trains. Yes, trai= ns! That's the Czech Repulic for you. Notes ----- Please note that nobody worked on KNotes. There were plenty of old scho= ol sticky notes though. Because Kevin Ottens likes to draw rectangles o= n white boards and sticky notes are a natural choice for filling them. There were also a lot of notes taken, notably on the outcome of the dic= ussions which were scheduled by moving notes on the whiteboard. This kind of structured handling of topics is a noteworthy improvement = over some of the previous sprints and very necessary given the increase= d number of people who nowardays attend them. Bugs ---- As it has become tradition, a significant portion of the meeting was de= dicated to mercilessly squash those nasty little buggers. David Faure, a man who surely need no further introduction, used the pr= esence of several component maintainers to get issues fixed. "Getting f= ixed" meaning he did the actual fixing, being aided by the aforemention= ed component specialists with insight into inner workings and assumptio= ns of the respective code. The previous and current maintainers of Akonadi had fun with things so = deep down in the guts of the system that not even the author of this ar= ticle would be able to fully understand them. Those people are way smar= ter than him! Additional to fixes in the sense of correcting erroneous behavior this = also included several improvements in the area of run time performance.= Progress -------- One of the fun aspects of a sprint is, aside from the obvious awesomene= ss of hanging out with great people, is to ponder and prototype potenti= al progressive programming pieces. Mark Gaiser, Michael Bohlender and Thomas Pfeiffer had a closer look at= how to get beyond quaint, dare I say boring, user interfaces and enabl= e QtQuick based applications to tap into the power provided by KDE PIM = libaries. Secrets ------- Naturally the presence of the KDE Barcelona Squad made secrecy a paramo= unt objective. Not only do we need to keep their identities confidently= , a job made easy by several Squad members disgusing themselves with en= ormous fake beards, we are bound by oath, under threat of draconian pun= ishment, to not talk about rocket science like advances in PIM data sea= rch. Well, rocket science doesn't even cut it, more likely on the level= of warp science! Editor's note: recent leaks have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do wit= h that. --nextPart1954459.9X2VoiQFvJ-- --nextPart3392608.pz6i7q7kFv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBTB1V0nKMhG6pzZJIRAtV2AJ4g/L6a8H8+7Z5q83i+qoCp6gkMqACeK8/e qGaE7rMUarKtXkf23S6ixqY= =gO64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3392608.pz6i7q7kFv-- --===============9048520883863541855== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. --===============9048520883863541855==--