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[opensuse-project] [GSoC] End of GSoC report - Entomologist UI Changes.
by David Williams 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hi all, You can find the final report for my project at [0] or below although I do recommend going to the link as there are screenshots to go along with it :). I'd like to thank OpenSUSE for saying yes to my project and to thank my mentor Matt for being incredibly supportive and helpful throughout my project. I've learned a lot!. ---Report Text Below--- GSoC 2011 is now over and I feel it's time to have a summary of what has been implemented over the summer for Entomologist. To start, Entomologist was made to work correctly on OS X and Windows, there was little work needed for OS X but an installer was created for Windows (which took a bit of head scratching as Qt's SDK dependencies are a bit complicated on Windows). I don't have Screenshots of Windows at the moment as it's effort to boot into a non *Nix OS :P. The screenshots will all be on OpenSUSE partly as a way to celebrate the end of GSoC by thanking the community that said yes to my project and also because I miss Linux so so much after using Mac OS X as my only OS for a few weeks at a time. The first thing worked on once this was completed was adding tabs for each individual tracker. There is still some work going on here that I'm no longer helping with but it was the start of a cleaner interface and will hopefully make viewing trackers easier. The New Comments Dialog was added for ease of use, the current expanding panel seemed very dodgy as a way of adding comments, sometimes splitting a users focus is a good thing. The New Comments Dialog took longer than I expected to implement because I was still learning the Entomologist code base. But I think this addition made me feel comfortable with the code base as a whole. The To Do List Dialog was the primary component for much of my GSoC as it was something I thought was really cool to implement and it could be expanded upon so much in future. The initial drag and drop stuff threw me because I have never had to do drag and drop between widgets before and because I'd never used Qt that much before. All the work prior to this was pretty simplistic and my acquaintance with Qt wasn't an issue but I had to start learning how to wield Qt better for the To Do List dialog. The QDateEdit was awkward to implement here, QTreeWidgets aren't designed for this level of customization as it's assumed you will use a Model but apart from the QDateEdit a model was superfluous to my needs. With guidance from my mentor I implemented an Item Delegate that did the trick and because Qt is so very well designed adding a calendar to the DateEdit was simple so now if you click on the date edit it will pull up a calendar to select from. The Checkbox was strange, I had found a way of adding my own widgets to QTreeWidgets but my mentor pointed out that you can just tell a column to become a checkbox without adding a widget. Problem simplified and solved. The Add New Service Dialog was the first thing I added once I'd completed the basic To Do List as I was going to add the ability to sync to external cloud calendar/task services. The first target for this was Remember The Milk as this seems to be the most popular one currently but Google Tasks and Generic WebDAV are to be added as soon as I can get them working!. The Preferences dialog is just a global dialog for seeing what services you have configured and adding a new one etc. The export dialog lets you select the services you want to sync too be it a single list or all the lists. The integration of Remember The Milk itself was a nightmare, I'd never had to use a Web API before, I'd never used REST, I'd never used a Network connection inside an application. A lot of 'never used' but I think I've managed to learn a lot and hopefully in future I won't end up going crazy when I have to implement a state machine again :). I've tried to make it as generic as possible so adding new services isn't that hard but I still have a lot of work to do to finish it. I'm not thrilled that I haven't finished in time for the deadline but as my mentor said "reality tends to turn most deadlines into jokes, in my experience". Wise words :). I've had fun working on this and I'm going to carry on working on it to see my project reach its completion. Last year I worked on a GSoC project but I didn't feel like anything I did was worthwhile and the utility of the project started to fade on me. This year I feel much happier and I feel like I've really learned a lot. My C++ skills were basic before the summer, My C and Java skills were far better but now I think I'm much stronger with C++ and it's piqued my interest in learning more C++ even though before starting this project I'd classified C++ as "C with objects" there are some really core differences that shouldn't be discarded. So farewell GSoC, You have been good to me and I will miss the summer of work you gave me. [0] - http://wp.me/pjdJf-5C Thanks everyone and have a good end of summer!, David Williams Entomologist UI Changes. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] SaX3 final report
by Manu Gupta 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Manu Gupta <manugupt1(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:44 PM Subject: Including SaX3 in factory To: opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org Hi All I believe SaX3 is good enough, to be pushed into factory. I would like to know if it can be included in factory as it will tested before 12.1 and I can include all the bugs reported as an update to 12.1 just as firefox does it. Also, what is the last date of factory submissions, September 1st 2011 just to make sure again. Please try again my repo, it will be constantly updated in the next few days so please refresh atleast once a day so that it looks more better before factory submissions. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/manugupt1/openSUSE_Factory/ So please try :-) Issues can be reported at http://code.google.com/p/sax3/issues/list Discussions at http://groups.google.com/group/sax3-discuss The latest repo will be up soon -- Regards Manu Gupta -- Regards Manu Gupta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] ssc - Weekly Update
by Ratan Sebastian 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hi, I'm working on the command line client for Suse Studio(ssc) project as part of GSOC 2011. I'll be posting weekly updates of the project on my blog [1]. There isn't much to check out now but in the coming weeks please do check in and leave feedback. Thank You. [1]: http://rxvl.in/tagged/ssc -- Ratan Sebastian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [gsoc2011] PackageKit, AppStream and openSUSE integration for Software Center
by Alex Eftimie 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hi everyone, I'm happy and a bit late to announce that my proposal, PackageKit and AppStream integration for Software Center has been accepted as a openSUSE GSoC project this summer. I'm planning to work incrementally, first by getting rid of ubuntu specific bits in s-c, then by abstracting backend classes, wrapping the pk API, and then adding new code/features, as described here: http://swarm.cs.pub.ro/~alexef/gsoc/proposal.html Your feedback is welcome! Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [GSoC] Firm pencils down | Final report - Suse Bug Reporter
by Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hello everyone, As tomorrow is the firm pencils down date, I thought I'd share with you the latest about my project. It now has a wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreporter where you can find general info about it. You can use the info on that page as the contents of this report. It also has now a man page, bash-completion for ease of use and it has been packaged so that anybody could use it. Last but not least, I want to add that the Google Summer of Code was a great experience for me, an experience for which I'm very grateful and I will continue working on this tool, bringing further improvements. Mihnea DB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [GSoC] Entomologist Ui Changes - Weekly Report #13
by David Williams 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

Hi all, You can find my report at [0] and below. I'm sorry that the report is late but I've been fighting with trying to get the code I've written to work!. ---- Report Text ------ The past week has been a killer, trying to get Remember the Milk to work correctly has been much much harder than I ever thought it would be. After hours of prodding and hair pulling the work I've put in is starting to take shape but much, much later than I had planned. It looks like the soft pencils down date was an ambitious estimate to having finished the project but aside from a few issues with duplication that I haven't tracked down yet it works. I have to implement a new way of storing the service ids assigned to tasks that are inserted because right now we just get tasks from the service and compare. If the user ever changes the name this will obviously break and isn't the most efficient way of storing multiple ids. I have until Friday to finish the work and if all things go well then I hope to have RTM and Google Tasks finished with a good chunk of the Generic WebDAV feature integrated, if I don't manage the Generic WebDAV feature then I don't know what I'll do as it is one I want to include in the release. Lesson learned: Web service APIs can drive you crazy especially if you mix it with asynchronous network connections (which I've never had to use before). [0] - http://wp.me/pjdJf-5A thanks, David Williams Entomologist UI Changes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] A project focus on small businesses
by Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hello my friends, After discussion with some friends of mine who run their business, a question came up. Well, live dvd is OK for a small business to cover the office needs but there's a need for some special software such as ERP or financial or accountant software. So, as we have openSUSE medical and openSUSE LiFE, is it possible to cover also some small businesses? Here in Greece we have a goal to do something with the medical for starters (since I'm more familiar with it). Another idea that came up to me, is to create another remastered distro based on openSUSE with some CAD software. There might be some on SUSE Studio but need a team that will support them. So people, what do you say? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] GSoC 2011: Bug reporting tool.
by Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hello, I'm applying at this year's GSoC to work on the bug reporting tool [0]. I've made my list of features to implement but, before I finalized my proposal, I thought it would be a good idea to ask you, guys: Is there's any particular feature that you wish to find in the openSUSE bug reporting tool? Thank you! Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur [0] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011_Ideas#Bug_reporting_tool_for_open… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Schedule openSUSE Conference 2011
by Klaas Freitag 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hi, we're happy to announce the preliminary schedule for the openSUSE Conference 2011 in Nuremberg, Germany from september 11th-14th. The timetable is available under http://conference.opensuse.org/timetable Please use it to promote the conference even more to make it a great event for the openSUSE project as well as for FOSS in general. Make sure to register soon! Thanks, Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] BoF sessions
by jdd 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Hello, glad to see the schedule :-) it's not very clear what is BoF in the schedule, or are BoF out of schedule? I proposed two BoF, but they are not that well described (by me) - I don't see them anymore. not that this worries me :-), but if they are real I need to prepare them :-) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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