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Am Freitag 03 April 2009 12:04:54 schrieb Zengjun Zhang: |
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> *Objective* |
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> Kuroo is a KDE GUI frontend for software management in Gentoo. From the |
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> screenshot and experience of Kuroo uers, it is very convient to use. But |
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> the latest version is 0.81.0_rc1, updated in 2007. And the offical offsite |
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> http://kuroo.org is no longer accessble. The objective of this project is |
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> to revise the source code to satisfy the current portage tree structure. |
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Can you also port it to KDE 4 in the process? |
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To me a KDE 4 version seems essential for the longterm usefulness of Kuroo. |
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KDE has some help for porting: |
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- http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/KDE4_Porting_Guide |
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If need be, I can give you a Mercurial version of the current SVN tree, |
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Besides: The website is up - maybe they had a temporary failure. |
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- http://kuroo.org |
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> *Abstract* |
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> emerge, which can be used by users to install or uninstall software. Kuroo |
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> is a GUI frontend for managing software written in C++ based on QT and KDE. |
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> It provides additional features like filter mechanism such as category and |
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> subcategory, accessing to specific version and USE flag. |
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Do you have some ideas how you can reduce the future maintenance cost of |
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Kuroo? |
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Portage will change from time to time, so how can you make it as easy as |
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possible to keep Kuroo compatible? |
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> *Deliverables* |
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> Revised source code (including the modification annotation) |
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Please work in the/a public VCS repository, so we can directly follow your |
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work. |
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The current subversion repository is available at |
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svn://kuroo.org/repos/kuroo |
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> Document (including main modification ideas and it's implementation) |
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> Version Support (tracking the new version of gentoo) |
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If time permits it would be nice to have overlay support (i,e, layman). |
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> *Timeline* |
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> 4.20 - 4.30: Get to know mentors and fully understand the orignal specific |
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> design ideas. |
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> 5.1 - 5.10: Dive into the details of Kuroo source code, try to figure out |
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> the relative part |
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-> just nitpicking: the *relevant* part |
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> 5.11 - 5.23: Give the specific modification document |
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> 5.24 - 6.14: Do the coding |
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> 6.15 - 7.15: Test the modification in several circumstance and revise the |
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> errors |
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> 7.16 - 7.30: Write document |
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-> some more nitpicking: I think you mean *documentation* |
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Best wishes, |
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Arne |
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PS: I don't mind the english - your coding skills are what's relevant :) |
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