This article has been rated as PG-18 due to violent behaviour and strong
\nlanguage usage (I would use nudity too, but I bet you would not find my
\nnaked pictures that amusing :)).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In this article we are going to look what are we cooking in the Gentoo\/KDE land.
\nOverall KDE health status in Gentoo is really good altho even we can use some
\nhelp as you will see bellow, so if you find yourself bored enough you should
\njoin #gentoo-kde @ freenode.net and help us out.<\/p>\n
So officially there WON’T be any stable version from the 4.5 series. I am really
\nsorry to break your hearts but first version that we will consider to go to stable will
\nbe probably the 4.6.1. Main reason is the Kdepim and the shitstorm (hope this word
\nwon’t offend you that much) it is causing with borked translations and the Akonadi
\nbackend issues. So no pink ponies this time.<\/p>\n
On the misc packages that are not part of the KDE SC (or how is that thing called
\nnowdays) we are quite often having latest version in testing, but frankly none
\never bothered to open stabilisation bugs for them. Here we probably need some
\ndedicated person that would work on the stable packages and open those bugs or
\nsome good soul could write simple to-stable script similar to the tool we use when
\nwe stabilise Xorg.<\/p>\n
So you are using ~ software you say? Brave heart you are? Good we need such
\nlads. In testing land we are quite edgy and we are able to deliver 0 day bumps.
\nThat is caused by the simple fact that all Gentoo\/KDE devs are using testing on
\ntheir machines.<\/p>\n
In testing land we need just people that really use the software and are able
\nto open version bump bugs (with proper patches if required) if we forgot to
\ndo so ourselves (but remember that if you open 0 day bump bug i will kill 1
\nkitten and 2 pandas) [I am proud member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)
\nso nothing will go vain :P].<\/p>\n
I see your central heating is not working so you need to compile KDE stuff
\nevery day, or just your ego is too large to find monthly recompilation
\nsatisfying.<\/p>\n
Situation here is getting pretty quickly from SNAFU to TARFU mode. We need
\nto migrate our eclasses to support GIT and move away from SVN, here I would
\nreally like to see a git-2.eclass prepared first (random thoughts and ideas
\nabout what it should do are wide spread around the Gentoo bugzilla), so anyone
\nwho enjoys writing bash scripts is more than welcome to help us in overlay
\nto write it.
\n* SNAFU = situation normal, all fucked up.
\n* TARFU = things are really fucked up.<\/p>\n
The CMake ebuild in main tree sucks a bit, cause it might fail to build
\ncompletely under some special cases (yeah I know I am dumb for writing it
\nthat way). So it needs complete overhaul to be doing this exactly:
\nbootstrap itself and then compile itself again using just bootstraped version<\/i>.
\nIf anyone is willing to spent their time on this, they are gladly welcome.<\/p>\nFinal word<\/h2>\n
I whine around all what we need to do in the KDE land but what am I doing? Well
\nthats quite simple: I am lately focusing more on Xorg and QA stuff, cause if
\nwe have non-working X everyone would notice, but if KDE nukes itself out only
\nlike 40% of users would whine. Also I like much more Katamari release approach
\nof small apps with various versions named as one Xorg release rather than KDE
\nhuge bloby releases (are you aware that most stuff you compile every month
\ndid not change at all?).<\/p>\n
I can hear you saying “But you are KDE team lead so how come you can’t do
\nmore?”. Answer to this is quite simple, we all are unpaid volunteers so I have
\njust limited free time i must devote between Gentoo and also pretending that
\nI have some normal life. Here I could say that I can accept donations to focus
\non KDE more, but since I don’t have any Paypal account nor I do want anything
\nfrom amazon, you guys are doomed until i find working on KDE being fun again :)
\n(altho if you are pretty gals or you are willing to sent your pretty sisters,
\nother female relatives into my direction I might change my mind a bit,
\nespecially if those are interested in CompSci :P).<\/p>\n
Should I try the Google recruitment process? Do I even stand a chance against
\nthose smart lads they are currently recruiting? What do ya think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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