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extensions.krita.org goes live !
Six months ago, after our last meeting, where it was decided that non-painting useful features should be moved away from Krita main distribution, and we decided to setup a new platform for distributing and maintaining them. This is when the Krita extensions project was started, including a three steps plan:
- A build dashboard.
- A user visible website with information on the extensions.
- Make it easy to install extensions.
As Krita does not guarantee API compatibility between major releases, the first priority has been to setup the build status page, so that we ensure that extensions keep building. It does not look good with only one extension that compile, for the simple reason that it is the only one that has been ported to Krita 2 (actually, it was developed for Krita 2), while the other ones were never ported from Krita 1.6.
But the user visible part was missing, so yesterday, as I did not feel like doing C++ work, and wanted to do something distracting, I worked on the ruby script that generates the website, and made a CSS for the website. The website source code is available on gitorious, in case you need to setup a similar website for your project.
So now, all that is left is to add more content, if you are interested in extending Krita, you can contact us on the mailing list or on freenode’s irc in #krita.
Braindump 0.9.0
Today, while I was about to prepare a small bug fix release of braindump 0.9.x (the version compatible with KOffice 2.2), I realized that I had actually not made any release of braindump for koffice 2.2… So here it is, Braindump 0.9.0, compatible with KOffice 2.2 is available for download: Braindump 0.9.0.
And for those who has forgotten what Braindump is, here is a video:
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KOffice Meeting Spring 2010 – Day 1
Today is the day where we all meet in the same room to discuss the mater that concern all of us.
The topic that kept us busy the most was success and failure, after a while we concluded that no one want to speak of failure, so we concentrated on what we consider is going to be our main criteria of success, the top mains one are lot of users and lot of developers. Our first step to get a lot of users will be to make it possible for a lot of users to use it (surprised ?), the good thing is that is indeed something that is progressing release after release. Then we will need a lot of advertisement and documentation. When it comes to developers, we concluded that the main problem is not to attract new ones, but to retain the one we have, and one of the key challenge is going to make sure we keep a good ratio of paid developers / hobbyist developers. A key feature of KOffice is going to be interoperability, and ODF is the way to go. Some ODF features are border lines and are not considered to be essential, but if someone is willing to write an implementation, it might be accepted by KOffice if it is good enough (code quality, maintainability and UI). Also an other way to achieve interoperability is with the implementation of import filters. Then the question of whether KOffice is a desktop application or also for use on mobile devices was raised, but this is a subject that require research on how to make the actual implementation. Suresh mentioned that Nokia would need a roadmap to help with their planning, which also require a vision, but writing a vision require an usability expert and the roadmap would have taken us an other day.
Then we continued with listing the missing features in KOffice, Suresh presented us their current work on mobile use of KOffice. And we finished by a discussion about our website, sadly Alexandra who did a wonderful job on planning our current website is now too busy to work on it, so for now I am going to take care of technical aspect, while Boudewijn writes content (expect a last week in koffice !).
The full minutes are fully available on koffice’s wiki.
For the dinner we went to the slowest restaurant, half an hour for the first drink and to order, an hour to get the food…
And now we enjoy the fresh evening, while blogging, sipping wine, hacking and discussing.
KOffice Meeting Spring 2010 – Day 0
The KOffice developers are meeting at the LinuxHotel in Essen for the week-end to start planning the future release and discuss various issues. Today is the coming day, Boudewijn was first on site and was there to welcome me, and negotiate in German with the lady to add a plate so that I could get lunch too. The site is quiet gorgeous, a nice landscape, a nice hotel and a tux statue (free beer and coca…).
This raise the question of how productive we will be, as you can see below Boudewijn and Thorsten are already at work reviewing a patch on loading and saving text on shape, and we started informal discussions:
Now almost everybody has arrived, and is enjoying the wifi, in the garden. With more discussion, blogging, bug hunting, and listening to the history of castle told by Boudewijn.
