Hello, On mercredi 31 janvier 2018 17:43:25 CET Michael Heidelbach wrote: > Hi! > > Let me introduce myself first. When I started contributing to KDE with > the beginning of this year this was the status: > > * No experience in C++ at all > * Wtr coding: No experience in collaboration and the technologies involved > * No experience in many other things > <https://phabricator.kde.org/T7116#122877> > * Good javascript knowledge > * Hobby developer > > since then: > > * arcanist hater (that's reciprocal) > > That did not keep me from being active: 14 commits this month. > > To the point. Baloo: > I think baloo is fantastic! I'm a heavy user of metadata to organize my > media (audio, video, ebooks) and I love how it integrates into the desktop. > As a result I know many of the kinks of the packages involved and want > to improve them. Baloo is in the centre of it. > The "low hanging fruit"-phase will soon be over for me. Very soon I'm > going to really tackle the bear (why is baloo called baloo anyway?). > That is challenging. Time to roll-up my sleeves. BUT! Neither can I nor > do I want to do this alone. Currently there are only 2 (two) regular > committers to baloo, James Smith and me. > > > Sadly baloo has no maintainer. I would take on that task if were more > experienced, but for now that wouldn't be reasonable and also would > issue a wrong message. I intend do it when I feel ready for it and it > still is a necessity. > > "The bear must live". This is a non-exhaustive list of things I need in > the meantime: > > * Reviewers. Many of my submits for baloo have been lingering on for > days without reaction. (OK, I'm impatient. But please don't make > poking on #kde-devel a regular element of my workflow.) > * Critique! I want you to look at my code and be harsh with it. > * Guidance. Old code, new code, styles, dependencies ... KDE code is > like a jungle to me. In coding I usually learn best by looking how > others have done it, analyze and adapt or adopt. With KDE code that > often times doesn't work out for me. E.g. I haven't been able to > derive rules for string handling "otto", 'otto', > QStringWhatEver("otto") or what? Or CMakeFiles: a horror! Also > testing strategies, very diverse... > > There is no critique inherent to this list, not at all. *You are helpful*! > > The list of what I want is not really a list: > > * @Community Admins: Baloo project page? > > > So here's my *plea*: > > If you are an experienced C++-programmer and know the KDE code-base > well, please watch the things the two of us doing for baloo, criticize > me, and first of all: *become a reviewer* for the requests targeted at > baloo or baloo-widgets, please! Help me keep the pace! > > > Thank you for reading all this, > > Michael > Thanks a lot for your work on baloo. I am an heavy user of it without time to really work on it. I will try to spend more time on your review requests.
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