KDE Blogs 

I'm experimenting with providing a CI (continuous integration) server for KDEPIM. For a while I've been running a cronjob that triggers a cmake script. This script then polls the repositories for 24 hours and every time a change was detected a build was performed. The results from this was feed to http://my.cdash.org (kdepim, kdepimlibs and kdepim-runtime). Read More

When I first got involved in KDE, I was very disappointed that none of the release parties were ever close enough for me to visit. There weren't very many in North America to begin with and most of those were either on the west coast or the midwest. It is hard to really feel plugged-in to a community when your only interaction with everyone is on IRC and e-mail. Read More

The European Space Agency is organizing ESA Summer of Code in Space 2011. And Marble and KStars have just been accepted as mentor organizations! Thanks a lot ESA, this is terrific news! The students application period starts today! And the schedule is tight: The deadline for applications is on July 27th, 11:00 AM (UTC) - that's about in a week! So if you're a student and if you'd like to participate then please hurry up and check the FAQ - especially the paragraph about eligibility pick a project from the ideas page (or suggest your own project) fill out and submit the application form for students. If you have any question, you can refer to the documentation center or write to the public SOCIS mailing list. If you have a question regarding Marble or KStars ideas just ask on our mailing lists (kstars-devel@kde.org and marble-devel@kde.org). And remember: In space no one can hear you code.

Recently I've been working on the smoke-gobject bindings in the evenings and weekends. Although I'm working on other things for my job at Codethink during the day, I'm sufficiently excited about these bindings to be unable to stop spending my free time on them. This is at the expense of working on the new version 3.0 of QtRuby sadly. I'll try to explain on this blog why I think the Smoke/GObject bindings will be important for the parties attending the forthcoming Desktop Summit to consider, and why I'm giving them a higher priority than Ruby. Read More

Have you considered contributing to the Marble (Virtual Globe) yet? The Voice of Marble contest is about to end in 8 days, so you could make use of your weekend by contributing: Read More

KDEPIM 4.6.1 is hereby released. You can find it in ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/kdepim-4.6.1/src You'll need both kdepim and kdepim-runtime, and please make sure to have the most recent Akonadi, Soprano, kdelibs4, kdepimlibs4.6 and friends. Also shared-desktop-ontologies (SDO) 0.6.x is required -- kdepim 4.6.1 will not build against newer versions of SDO. See the list of bugs we fixed since 4.6.0. I don't know yet if we'll make 4.6.2 release, as KDE SC 4.7 is fast approaching.

I haven't written any posts for a few weeks, so I figure it's time for an update. I, along with a bunch of other people who hack on Qt, attended the Qt Contributor Summit in Berlin. This was a very useful event, since it brought together a good mixture of both Nokia developers and external developers - as I would have hoped, KDE was one of the most common afiliations. One of the main things I wanted to do during the event was get together with the people responsible for the Qt SSL code and ensure that the plans for Qt5 will meet the needs of KDE (and others who want non-trivial SSL usage). Read More

Bazaar developers like to play against the odds, whatever the odds This week I'm in Dublin for Canonical's mid-cycle meetup where our Ubuntu developers work on their normal projects but with the advantage of face to face contact with colleagues. It's a bit like working from an office but without the commute and with more Guiness. Read More

Kexi Web Browser Widget is a form element that lets the user to put full-featured web browser's box onto the Kexi Form surface using single drag and drop and then load the address from the database. The challenge has been accepted by Shreya Pandit within the Season of KDE program for the Calligra project. Read More

I'm back now (since two weeks already) from the KDE Platform sprint in Randa and I have to say it was great. Randa is located very nice in the Swiss mountains, next to Matterhorn, and very well suited not only for KDE sprints, but also for cycling (I had my bike with me there) :-) Read More