Hello Pali, I am travelling for next 4-5 days to FOSSASIA 2015 Conference in Singapore representing KDE to give a talk. I have seen all the links and currently contemplating on the possibility of the reuse of the code. Would love to have a conversation with you and Volker soon whenever you are free. I will be back on 15th night and would resume my research on this.
Regards, Akshay Ratan On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Akshay Ratan <akshayra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Pali and Volker, > > Greetings to the Kopete Team! > > Thanks for the quick reply. I would love to hear more from Volker. > > Currently, I have built the Kopete Source Code with all the dependencies. > I am looking in the various junior jobs and links you gave as the roadmap. > I will let you all know the update very soon. > > Contributing to Kopete will be enriching, no doubt. I would love to study > the existing IRC Code and see if it can be used. Again, I l mail back very > soon on that. > > Looking for other contributors to voice their view on this plugin. The > insights would be really good for the project! > > Cheers, > Akshay Ratan > *KDE Contributor* > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Akshay > -- Akshay
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