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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
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KDE PIM November Sprint
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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.
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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
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KDE PIM November Sprint
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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.
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