Season of KDE 2026 – Final Blog

Keshav-Nanda — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings to everyone in the KDE community!

As SoK '26 comes to a close, this blog post summarizes the work done in the second half. Please refer to my mid-term blog post for further context.

My SoK task was to ensure all the .pot files generated have source references relative to the project root.

Upon discussion with my mentor, Finley Watson, and my teammate Aviral Singh, we decided to create merge requests to a throwaway repo made by our mentor to ensure that all the messy commits are cleaned up and functioning well. This was also done to ensure that the MRs don't create regressions of any kind.

I created an MR that modifies the createdesktopcontext.pl file. Instead of using lazy regex to manipulate the path string and extract a basename, I used Perl's built-in File::Spec->abs2rel to compute the correct project-root-relative path programmatically.

I also created MR !121 which makes use of Aviral's validation script to ensure that the logs generated match the format of Scripty's existing logs. The MR ensures that there is:

One WARNING in <file>: <message> line per bad path
One self-contained summary line per POT, always printed
Zero noise when everything is clean

Conclusion

Looking back, SoK has taught me a lot of things. I've learnt how to navigate complex codebases, read and write Bash and Perl, and deal with complex version control rather than just git add ., git commit -m and git push ;)

I've also realised how important commit history and messages are (which I never paid much attention to while developing personal projects). Overall, this has been an amazing and enjoyable experience for me and I would like to thank my mentor Fin for the guidance, and Aviral for being a great teammate throughout.

Season of KDE - Midterm Blog

Keshav-Nanda — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello world!

My name is Keshav Nanda and I had the opportunity to work with Scripty, a KDE bot that extracts translatable strings from various KDE applications and sends them to KDE translators.

I worked on the issue of standardizing translation reference paths across all KDE projects and this blog summarizes my progress up until the 4 week mark.

Week 1 and Week 2

Couldn't get much work done as I was occupied with university exams.

Week 3

Got my feet wet with the actual source code, went through MR 90 and developed a basic understanding of the problem that needed to be solved, that is to ensure that all .po files generated by Scripty are relative to project root.

Week 4

Helped my partner Aviral in testing his implementation of merge request 116 and added to the KDE projects he validated. This MR added a docker environment to standardize the testing process and made changes in extract_metainfo.sh and extract-messages.sh to enforce relative file paths.

Conclusion

The first 4 weeks have been a great learning experience. I got familiar with Scripty's codebase, understood the core problem of inconsistent translation reference paths, and contributed to validating the fix. The goal going forward is to continue testing and work towards getting the changes merged. I want to thank my partner Aviral Singh and my mentor Finley Watson for the guidance and support throughout!

Onwards and upwards!

Keshav-Nanda on KDE Blogs

Season of KDE 2026 – Final Blog

Conclusion

Season of KDE - Midterm Blog

Week 1 and Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Conclusion