On 16 March 2012 09:46, jigar raisinghani <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > I am extremely sorry for confusing the developer community because of > the word "PROJECT". What i meant in my past mail by the words "NOT MY ACTUAL > GSOC PROPOSAL" was that this is not the idea/Project which i would like to > pursue under GSOC 2012. I am currently working on implementing PIVOT TABLES > in Calligra Sheets which i would like to take up under GSOC 2012. I am in > touch with Marijn Kruisselbrink regarding PIVOT TABLES and i have requested > him to mentor me for the same. I guess the need for Pivot Tables is more > than extending "Shapes"(what i had proposed). Moreover i love the concept > of Pivot Tables, so i have been constantly reading about Pivot Tables as to > what all functionalities should be included and how they would be > implemented in Sheets by going through the Calligra Sheets Source Code. I > have gone through the previous & sample GSOC proposals and i do realize the > importance of timeline. I promise to have a proper timeline for PIVOT > TABLES' proposal. I have been working on my proposal to make it the best > possible. > > Note, this does not mean that i am not very serious about my proposal > regarding Words and Sheets. I would surely give my best efforts to make it > possible. The only reason why i did not come up with a timeline was because > i was not very sure of how much time i would be left with because i am > working on PIVOT TABLES. I am pretty passionate about getting PIVOT TABLES > implemented first and also there is a need for it. If time permits during > GSOC, i would also been keen to implement this idea but in the worst case, i > would be ALL FOR IT after GSOC. I am currently pursuing my BTech and would > be busy till April. But we have a 3 months long summer break starting from > May1 and as i would be in my final year(next semester) i would be relatively > very free. So i would be able to devote my time towards getting proposal > regarding Sheets and Tables materialize. I promise to come up with > implementation details for the same before i start working on it. As of now > and for GSOC, i would like to concentrate on PIVOT TABLES. > > The reason why i sent across my proposal was to get a review as to does a > need exist for the same and if possible get a better alternative or method > of implementing the idea. The purpose was to get a clear target as to what > needs to be achieved. I guess sending it out got to me many(better) ideas > regarding the same. > > Jaroslaw, i like the challenge. i remember doing somewhat(not very sure) > similar stuff in one of my projects using JAVA. It basically involved > fetching data from POSTGRE server using JDBC(Java DataBase Connectivity) and > represent the data using JTables. Well i would surely try to figure a way > out as to how could it be done in Calligra.
Jigar, Cool, that's normal - many ideas, food for thought :_) To add even more spice here - pivot tables for database apps (Kexi) are really appealing (but I think reuse of Sheets pivot tables would be rather limited because of different data models and requirements - spreadsheets usually have all the data in memory already). Another challenge :) -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
