On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On May 31, 2010, Armijn Hemel wrote: >> I'm not sure what you actually mean with this, so let me explain how >> NLnet Foundation funds projects these days. In the old days, it was > ... >> Their funding would be tied to concrete results and money is not given >> up front. They are quite flexible when it comes to payment per milestone >> though, but they definitely want to see progress. They like deadlines, >> they like milestones, they like concrete results. > > thanks for the explanations, this helps me understand what you are looking at > and for a lot more clearly. to repay your patience, here is my answer to Jos' > original question, then: > > * adding a way to edit non-C++ widgets is dead simple, and something that > could be added to the context menus of such widgets very easily. let's call > that two day's work: create a QAction in the right place (AppletScript) that > is connected to a slot which opens Plasmate to the right location > > * adding a way to track where a widget came from means storing a bit more > metadata with the installed widget; this would be useful in the "upload my > special version of this", esp if it can include things such as the remote git > repo > > * extend and solidify the editing process in Plasmate; maybe a month's worth > of work there to get it into really amazing shape > > * better integration with an online storage facility (kde-apps.org perhaps) to > catalog these kinds of evolutions, so if i'm viewing FooPlasmoid i can see the > 8 variations that add different things to it (not sure how long that would > take) > > * integration with GHNS so that such variations can be grouped and tried out > (also not sure on a timeline for this one; probably a couple weeks) > > so if we do the usual "it always takes longer", let's call it 2-3 months of > full time work to have something that is nice and slick. we already have so > many of the pieces together, and it would be possible to pull back on the > quality of the final product to compress the timeline if needed.
Thank you very much, this is great info to create a good proposal. I have one more question: how hard/easy will it be to find someone to spend these 2-3 months on Plasmate within the community? And to the kdevelop people: think about the questions as well, if you want, and try to come up with answers please! > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > humru othro a kohnu se > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel