Ground Control Plans (UDS)
One of the things I hope to talk about at UDS is ground control and it’s development focus, these are the current things on the table that are outside of bugs in existing features:
* Create Project / Branch
* Extract from gtk and make available to qt, attract developer to work on dolphin plugin
* Extract from launchpad and allow savanah and other project management sites
* Extract from bazaar and allow other systems
* Develop a conflict resolution feature
* Separate launchpadlib interactions into a dbus based system
* Develop a type-of-content set of default buttons for certain kinds of projects (this is moving more towards quickly territory though)
I may also want to discuss methods of payment for these features, who needs the features and for what reason, perhaps organise a crowd funding event to free my time up from job hunting and other spurious pocket money activities to work on this.
Your Thoughts?
Tags: development focus, Ubuntu, uds
I feel this project is vital to the future of software development in Ubuntu, so I’m going to make sure to help this project in anyway I can, starting with getting back to the website (e.g. implement blogroll).
On the note of where it should go, I’ve already discussed with you the ability to integrate into SVN while you thought git/github.com|gitorious.com|code.google.com was more important. Either way, the more VCSes and hosting website (don’t forget private hosts) you can integrate in to, the better.
I’m sure you’ll be able to find a KDE programmer to help you port it to Qt; I’d be surprised if no one from Kubuntu thought it’d help with software development or thought it was worth their time.
Lastly, like I also said, make sure to look at RabbitVCS. It’s also programmed in Python and integrates into Nautilus. I currently use it for work and it has terrible performance issues (see: http://blog.rabbitvcs.org/archives/164). It’s similar to TortoiseSVN but I prefer your layout/interaction for sure.
Make sure to post your talk at UDS =)