On Tuesday 03 March 2015 11:39:29 Akshay Ratan wrote: > Hello Pali, > > I was going through the project list for KDE-GSoC this time > and I came across these projects in Kopete: *Better History > Plugin and IRC Protocol*. I was really interested in > contributing to the latter project as I have myself faced a > need for IRC support in Kopete. Unfortunately my father > passed away few days back and I am still trying to get back > to work. I read the short description mentioned, but I would > love to get a mail from you with a little more details about > the project. Probably solving a bug or two would be good to > start off for this project. I will get the repo forked, build > it, and start understanding the flow of the code a bit. > Having worked with Qt and QML extensively over the past > years, I am sure that I will enjoy working and learn about > IRC Protocols too. > > Looking forward to hearing from you and contribute with the > Kopete Team. > > > *Something about myself* > > I am a final year undergraduate student contributing in KDE > Community through both software contributions and community > participation. > > I have been associated with KDE organisation from the past 3 > years as a software developer having done projects in > KMouseTool application as my Summer of KDE 2012 Project and > then Plasma Media Center as my Google Summer of Code 2013 > project. I am in PMC team currently and participated in the > BoF during Akademy 2014. I also delivered two separate talks > on my GSoC Project and KDE India during *Akademy 2014 *held > in *Brno, Czech Republic* *.* > > I also headed the organising team for two very successful KDE > Conferences in India- *conf.kde.in <http://conf.kde.in/> 2014 > and KDE Meetup 2013.* > > I am also invited to talk on Version Control System and Git in > KDE for FOSSASIA 2015 Conference scheduled in mid-March. > > > - > > GSoC 2013 Link: > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/ak > shay_ratan/27001 - > > GSoC 2013 KDE Status: > > http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/StatusReports#Akshay_Ratan > - > > KDE Dot Story Publication having my work: > > http://dot.kde.org/2013/10/18/kde-accomplishments-google-summ > er-code-2013 - > > Blog Updates on GSoC 2013 Projects : > > > 1. > > > > http://akshaycode.blogspot.in/2013/07/trysts-with-my-gsoc-pro > ject-part-i.html 2. > > > > http://akshaycode.blogspot.in/2013/09/trysts-with-my-gsoc-pro > ject-part-ii.html > > > > I am proficient in C++, Qt , QML, Java, C, and have a > significant knowledge of Python, Ruby, HTML, JS. I have a > good code reading and understanding abilities besides being a > very quick learner. > > > On the soft skill areas, I have an excellent communication and > writing skills. > > > Cheers, > > Akshay Ratan > > *http://akshaycode.blogspot.in/ > <http://akshaycode.blogspot.in/> *
CCing kopete-devel and Volker Hello! Basically Kopete does not have working IRC protocol support. In Kopete git tree is unfinished semi-ported plugin from Kopete KDE3 which does not working. Yesterday Volker wrote me email that years ago he worked on new simple IRC plugin which is probably unfinished and not ready to use. Probably Volker should write more info about it... http://software.opensuse.org/package/kopete-irc-plugin?search_term=kopete-irc Thanks to precise svn-to-git migration of Kopete we have full (connected) history of all svn branches in git. There is older KDE4 branch named "work/new_irc" with some updates to IRC code. Again this is probably not finished and not working too. Next, I know about this kopete kde4 irc plugin hosted on kde-apps which is probably older version of Volker implementation... http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kopete+irc+plugin?content=113720 Result of IRC protocol project for Kopete GSoC should be working and tested implementation of IRC protocol ready for every day usage. If you choose some existing code or start working from scratch... it is up to you. I do not know much information about existing/non-working :-) IRC protocols for Kopete KDE4. Volker should know more... So I think part of this project would be investigate existence of existing plugins and decision what is better: reuse existing code or not. From candidates I would like to see some contribution to Kopete codebase, either fixing some bug, adding new feature, ... There is some wiki page with Junior jobs: https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Kopete/JuniorJobs (but I'm not sure if is up-to-date) There are also other wiki pages about missing features: https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Kopete/Roadmap https://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan#kdenetwork https://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.4_Feature_Plan#kdenetwork https://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.5_Feature_Plan#kdenetwork (but again I'm not sure what was implemented and what not) You should start with cloning git repository and build Kopete from source code with all additional & optional dependences and features. But biggest problem now are people who could have time for Kopete & GSoC this year. One person/mentor (=me) is not enough. And I do not know about others... -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
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