On Tuesday 18 May 2010 22:15:10 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hi all, > > A question, and I'll try to keep it short. It is about a VERY immature > funding *idea*. No expectations please... > > The idea is that we do have a dream - make development easy. > > It is about connecting some dots: GHNS/KNX, the OBS, Opendesktop.org > and KDevelop/Plasmate. I think ya'll know what I mean. > > Example: user works with KWrite, sees an bug, clicks for example the > 'help' menu, chooses 'develop this app' and 5 minutes later the > sources are automatically downloaded from svn/git, -devel packages > installed and he/she is looking at the source file of KWrite in > KDevelop. Once the fix has been made, click on 'send for review', and > it's posted on review board. Or published on KDE-apps.org, where > packages for a dozen distributions are compiled automatically by OBS > (including feedback on build errors). > > Similar story with Plasmate - see plasmoid, like, click 'edit' > somewhere, it gets downloaded from GHNX/KNX, you code, and click > upload to share it (in case of C++, OBS again comes in to compile it). > > Now this is all lovely, and we have most of the infrastructure, but > the dots still need to be connected. Doesn't that sound like something > beautiful to have funding for? Yep, it does. However, potential > investors will want to know how expensive it would be and how much > time it would cost. Yes, even if you just trow around wild ideas like > I just did it helps a lot to have (raw) numbers. And as I'm neither a > developer nor expert in any of the technologies I mentioned, I can't > give even the vaguest clue as to how much time/effort this would cost. > > So for the two scenario's above, who can throw a thumb in the air and > guestimate the number of man-weeks/months or say "3 guys/girls, 6 > months" or something? And, also important, do we have the people to do > it, are there developers here who would be willing and capable? > > Again, I don't have much hope for funding, but it never hurts to try...
Ok all, I know an immature idea with little hope off success might not be very attractive - but it never hurts to try. Anyone has any input?
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