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Subject: [kde-promo] Draft: dot story PIM sprint
From: Kevin Krammer <krammer () kde ! org>
Date: 2014-02-21 13:32:30
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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
=======================
Earlier this year it was established that "Osnabrück is not a place". Meaning that \
the KDE PIM spring sprint, which traditionally took place in Osnabrück, could happen \
at a different location and still be a continuation of the tradition.
KDE PIM's autumn sprint has for a couple of years now traditionally been 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 that are no places but \
coincdentally contain the letters B, R and N.
So, without further due, the story about the KDE PIM autumn sprint, brought to you by \
<a href="http://ev.kde.org">KDE e.V.</a>, <a href="http://www.redhat.cz">Red Hat</a> \
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 intense 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 pieces of KDE software \
and had beer delivered to them on trains. Yes, trains! That's the Czech Repulic for \
you.
Notes
-----
Please note that nobody worked on KNotes. There were plenty of old school sticky \
notes though. Because Kevin Ottens likes to draw rectangles on 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 dicussions 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 increased \
number of people who nowardays attend them.
Bugs
----
As it has become tradition, a significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to \
mercilessly squash those nasty little buggers. David Faure, a man who surely need no \
further introduction, used the presence of several component maintainers to get \
issues fixed. "Getting fixed" meaning he did the actual fixing, being aided by the \
aforementioned component specialists with insight into inner workings and assumptions \
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 article would be able to \
fully understand them. Those people are way smarter 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 awesomeness of hanging \
out with great people, is to ponder and prototype potential 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 enable 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 paramount objective. \
Not only do we need to keep their identities confidently, a job made easy by several \
Squad members disgusing themselves with enormous fake beards, we are bound by oath, \
under threat of draconian punishment, to not talk about rocket science like advances \
in PIM data search. 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 with 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
=======================
Earlier this year it was established that "Osnabrück is not a place". Meaning that \
the KDE PIM spring sprint, which traditionally took place in Osnabrück, could happen \
at a different location and still be a continuation of the tradition.
KDE PIM's autumn sprint has for a couple of years now traditionally been 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 that are no places but \
coincdentally contain the letters B, R and N.
So, without further due, the story about the KDE PIM autumn sprint, brought to you by \
<a href="http://ev.kde.org">KDE e.V.</a>, <a href="http://www.redhat.cz">Red Hat</a> \
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 intense 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 pieces of KDE software \
and had beer delivered to them on trains. Yes, trains! That's the Czech Repulic for \
you.
Notes
-----
Please note that nobody worked on KNotes. There were plenty of old school sticky \
notes though. Because Kevin Ottens likes to draw rectangles on 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 dicussions 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 increased \
number of people who nowardays attend them.
Bugs
----
As it has become tradition, a significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to \
mercilessly squash those nasty little buggers. David Faure, a man who surely need no \
further introduction, used the presence of several component maintainers to get \
issues fixed. "Getting fixed" meaning he did the actual fixing, being aided by the \
aforementioned component specialists with insight into inner workings and assumptions \
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 article would be able to \
fully understand them. Those people are way smarter 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 awesomeness of hanging \
out with great people, is to ponder and prototype potential 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 enable 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 paramount objective. \
Not only do we need to keep their identities confidently, a job made easy by several \
Squad members disgusing themselves with enormous fake beards, we are bound by oath, \
under threat of draconian punishment, to not talk about rocket science like advances \
in PIM data search. 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 with that.
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