On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:43 AM, Michael Heidelbach <ottw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
Hi Michael,
>
> Let me introduce myself first. When I started contributing to KDE with the
> beginning of this year this was the status:
>
> No experience in C++ at all
> Wtr coding: No experience in collaboration and the technologies involved
> No experience in many other things
> Good javascript knowledge
> Hobby developer
>
> since then:
>
> arcanist hater (that's reciprocal)
>
> That did not keep me from being active: 14 commits this month.
>
> To the point. Baloo:
> I think baloo is fantastic! I'm a heavy user of metadata to organize my
> media (audio, video, ebooks) and I love how it integrates into the desktop.
> As a result I know many of the kinks of the packages involved and want to
> improve them. Baloo is in the centre of it.
> The "low hanging fruit"-phase will soon be over for me. Very soon I'm going
> to really tackle the bear (why is baloo called baloo anyway?). That is
> challenging. Time to roll-up my sleeves. BUT! Neither can I nor do I want to
> do this alone. Currently there are only 2 (two) regular committers to baloo,
> James Smith and me.
>
>
> Sadly baloo has no maintainer. I would take on that task if were more
> experienced, but for now that wouldn't be reasonable and also would issue a
> wrong message. I intend do it when I feel ready for it and it still is a
> necessity.
>
> "The bear must live". This is a non-exhaustive list of things I need in the
> meantime:
>
> Reviewers. Many of my submits for baloo have been lingering on for days
> without reaction. (OK, I'm impatient. But please don't make poking on
> #kde-devel a regular element of my workflow.)
> Critique! I want you to look at my code and be harsh with it.
> Guidance. Old code, new code, styles, dependencies ... KDE code is like a
> jungle to me. In coding I usually learn best by looking how others have done
> it, analyze and adapt or adopt. With KDE code that often times doesn't work
> out for me. E.g. I haven't been able to derive rules for string handling
> "otto", 'otto', QStringWhatEver("otto") or what? Or CMakeFiles: a horror!
> Also testing strategies, very diverse...
>
> There is no critique inherent to this list, not at all. You are helpful!
>
> The list of what I want is not really a list:
>
> @Community Admins: Baloo project page?
I've now created #baloo on Phabricator.
If you would like to use the wiki for more indepth content other than
just a description we can also look into that.
>
>
> So here's my plea:
>
> If you are an experienced C++-programmer and know the KDE code-base well,
> please watch the things the two of us doing for baloo, criticize me, and
> first of all: become a reviewer for the requests targeted at baloo or
> baloo-widgets, please! Help me keep the pace!
>
>
> Thank you for reading all this,
>
> Michael
>
>
Cheers,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin
