Hello KDE! I am glad to let you know that the first KDE Frameworks IRC meeting happened last night, and it was very productive. The main goals where to get everyone up to speed on what's going on in the different areas, but also to identify where effort are needed.
The meeting involving a bunch of hackers had this natural tendency we all love to sometimes gets very indepth in tangential technical topics, but we covered quite some ground nonetheless. Here is my own executive summary of the meeting. We're right now having three different efforts running concurrently: * Improving CMake and our use of it * Merging features in Qt 5.0 * Splitting kdelibs Understandably we aknowledged that so far the CMake and Qt 5.0 efforts have seen the most work. It's a base work really needed for the splitting to happen as it depends on both. We also identified thanks to feedback some inaccuracies in the documentation available now in the wiki[KFW] which was to be expected since the paint on it is still fresh. It's nice because we got "to the point" issues identified, and in reaction to that I added to the list a fourth on-going effort regarding the communication around KF5 with the relevant issues. This new effort will revolve around mainly three topics: giving some rythm to the development (expect milestones and aggressive planning soonish), improving our newborn documentation (one of the main triggers), and outreaching to people volunteering to help. Overall, we all agree that it is the right time for more people to step in. Obviously you still need to be resilient to evolving documentation, don't hesitate to ask question, help us fix the documentation where it is subpar, and volunteer to help. As pointed out by Stephen Kelly recently: be proactive! be bold! be a doer! We closed the meeting with some extra tasks for the people attending, and I took time tonight before sending out this email to process them, applying them if necessary, or filling them where they belong in the wiki. I'd like to thank Nicolás Alvarez and Mario Fux who dedicated time and effort to this meeting and contributed meeting notes[MN]. I also posted the full unedited IRC log[IL]. Regards. [KFW] http://community.kde.org/Frameworks [MN] http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Meetings/20111204 [IL] http://files.kde.org/frameworks/kde-frameworks-meeting-20111204.txt -- Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com
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