Re: some text about the solid sprint and previous meetings

On Sunday, October 03, 2010 12:37:30 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2010 22:26:43 Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix) 
> > I've never written a dot story. 
> 
> I think maybe you just did :-)
> 
> > I'm not trying to. I just send you these
> > notes about the solid sprint and the previous representative meetings
> > just in case somebody can write one.
> 
> Could you/another attendee add a few notes about day two? (and the other
> days  if it lasted more than two). If so then I think this will just need
> a little bit of editing and will be ready for the Dot.
> 
> > My english is not too good but I think you will understand what has
> > happened
> 
> It's really not bad at all :-)

Day one should maybe also mention Agustin:

Agustin Benito Bethencourt took care of commmunication tasks during the 
sprint, freeing up time of other developers to fully concentrate on code, 
architecture and design.

====

Day two of the sprint nominally began when the Solid hackers returned from 
dinner in down-town Madrid. Even late at night, almost everybody was still 
active until the early morning hours, and great things were achieved. Dario 
Freddi and Sebastian Kügler got large parts of the re-newed powerdevil core 
and configuration working, while Lamarque Souza made strides towards support 
for setting up mobile broadband connections using the network management 
framework in Solid. Kevin "ervin" Ottens pushed the new backend for Storage 
devices based on udisks towards completion, while Alex Fiestas restructured 
bugreports for the new BlueDevil framework to make user support easier. Rafael 
"ereslibre" Fernández López took care of the new Udev backend, a provider of 
information for generic types of devices. Will Stephenson put his muscle into 
researching how bluetooth and networking interact, and provided invaluable 
information for implementing tethering (connecting your laptop through your 
phone to the Internet) in KDE's Plasma components, based on Network Manager 
and BlueDevil. Most people took a couple of hours off in the early Sunday 
morning to catch some badly needed sleep, though apparently not everybody 
decided that this would be time well spent.

At the end of the sprint, the KDE Solid team looks back at a huge pile of work 
done. Some Solid components have moved to a more flexible, scalable, usable 
and energy-friendly architecture, while others have received love in 
usability, stability and feature-completeness. Janitor-like tasks like 
deprecating HAL in KDE software have been moved forward, and are expected to 
be completed with the next feature release of the KDE software in January, 
4.6.0.
The sprint was a great success, thanks to its sponsors <a 
href="http://www.ufocoders.es">UFOCoders</a> and thhe <a 
href="http://ev.kde.org">KDE e.V.</a>, who have donated another invaluable 
contribution to the KDE community and its millions of users.

===

The text might not be perfect, as I'm quite sleep-deprived, but hopefully 
serves as a good base to bring it to Dot-quality.

I'll blog some photos later tonight, keep an eye on the Planet.

Thanks for the help!
-- 
sebas

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