KDevelop/Meeting2011

Randa 2011 KDevelop Meeting

Agenda

Tue

• arrive

Wed

• get up with an agenda

Plugins

requirements for plugins in extragear/kdevelop/*:

• kdereview
• maintainer
• releasable
• unit tests (and none failing)

plugins to merge:

• kdevplatform/
  • controlflowgraph
    • TODO: investigate status, get out of kdereview
  • execute script
    • TODO: investigate status, get into kdereview
• kdevelop/
  • qmake
    • TODO: Milian: investigate status, get into kdereview
• kdevelop/plugins/
  • merge php/php-docs
    • TODO: Milian
  • css
    • TODO: investigate status, get into kdereview
  • execute browser
    • TODO: investigate status, get into kdereview
  • xdebug
    • TODO: investigate status, get into kdereview

notes on /plugins:

• not a single big repo (devs against it)
• TODO: document easy "build-all" process on techbase

note for developers: kdevplatform API breakages must be fixed in every stable repo, i.e. everything in https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/kdevelop must be compiling

Build Bot & Unit Testing

• TODO: Get a build bot running
  • either on every commit (much work)
  • or at least once a day (single to implement)
• TODO: Get a unit test bot running
  • requirements:
    • no failing unit tests (XFAIL is OK)
    • no agressive performance tests (time limit, memory limit, ...)
• TODO: investigate cdash
  • kdelibs dashboard is down, not a good impression
• TODO: ask PovAddict on his experience with build bot + unit tests

Gluon

• try to rebase gluoncreator on kdevplatform
• put improvements into the platform
  • plugin based diff-viewer (i.e. to compare designer files, images, ...)
  • improved history viewer (timeline, ...)
• alternatively try to reuse parts of kdevplatform in gluoncreator
  • problem: kdevplatform (rightly so!) expect full kdevplatform availability

Unit Tests

developers:

• never submit failing unit tests (use QEXPECT_FAIL)
• try to run unit tests regularily

Thu

Project Dashboard

saving/sharing:

• opt-in 'save to project file' which is shared to users via project.kdev4
  • good for users opening the project the first time in kdevelop
• by default save changes to dashboard in .kdev4/ folder

plasmoids:

• vcs commit log (provided by vcs plugin)
• file contents view
• webslide
• feedreader

use cases:

• project website news (feed reader)
• project resources: bugtracker, mailing list, ... (webslide / file contents view)
• recent commits (vcs plugin)

Session Dashboard

• read-only
• only shown when no view exists, esp. on first start
• contents:
  • recent sessions
  • recent projects
  • recent files
  • open new file/session/project

Browser-Like Tabs

• niko pushed the rebased branches
• various feedback already implemented, still some stuff to-do

Fri

VCS

• get rid of diff to HEAD/BASE, integrate them to single action
• when calling 'show diff' from annotation bar, show full commit, i.e. including commit message and all changed files

Mon

Mass-Reload

• reload all action in file menu
  • dialog showing all changed files
• also show one dialog for all when multiple files are modified/deleted, i.e. when switching branches / checkout -f, ...
• maybe improve inside kate

D&D

• adymo fixed it for toolviews
• we need it for projectmanager view

Areas

• when workingsets are plugin, make areas just list of toolviews, not also of documents
• switching between code<->debug should reuse workingset by default
• when activating review area, show diff or at least integrate with aleix's vcs view
• review area needs UI love
• toolbars must stay area dependent, there seems to be a bug on startup

Kate Plugins

• some useful plugins we want in kdevelop
  • sql?
  • xml?
• most are not useful, or simply duplicate stuff in kdevelop
• requires new ktexteditor interface most probably, question is whether this is accepted by kate guys

only two plugins, not really useful?

Quanta / External Plugins

• executescript kdevplatform
• dissolve quanta, sorry guys - my bad :-/ (milian)
  • kdereview -> kdevelop/plugins: (with alpha release afterwards)
    • executebrowser -> Niko maintainer
    • css -> Milian/Niko maintainer
    • xdebug -> Niko maintainer, needs to be checked first
    • qmake -> Milian maintainer, stabilize first
    • phpformatter into PHP repo -> Milian maintainer, review first
  • playground/kdevelop:
    • move rest out of quanta on-demand
    • most can be built stand-alone from quanta sources anyways
    • upload?? look at it, maybe release it as well

TODO: milian ask nicolas about moving out the plugins into own repo

Targets in ProjectManagerView

• project view filter can be used
• special ctest handling in cmake might be useful
  • cdash property?
  • milian: ask neundorf about it

Sessions UI

• menu does scale
  • like recent files, limit to N last sessions
  • session picker as fallback for other sessions
• session picker:
  • needs UI love
  • hide QUUid
  • integrate delete/rename simpler
    • QDBus querying for whether it's possible to delete/rename
• krunner gets merged, yay

Output View

• try to use konsole for output
  • needs work in konsole
  • pros:
    • performance
    • colors
    • ...
  • cons:
    • f4/jump to error
    • portability?
  • make it as GSOC project?

Chromium-like UI

• relayout stuff, i.e. put useful quickopen stuff below tabs
• requires niko's browser-like tabs

[tab1] [tab2] [tab3] [tab4] [tab5] ...

[quickopen file:/...] [outline]

Browser-like Tabs

• needs fixes in global history
• try to merge it

Thu

• wrap up & leave home

Discussion TODO

not so controversial

• [DONE] merge control flow into kdevplatform
• [DONE] merge qmake into kdevelop
• [DONE] extra-plugins module: css, execute-script, execute-browser, andreas' custom project manager, ...
• gluon integration
• handle rename/delete of file in editor view
• handle switching branch -> reload open (changed) files
• port mailing list to kde infrastructure
• improve website / wikis / ...
  • promotion part
• integrate wiki documentation

controversial

• browser-like tabs
• welcome page
• drag&drop
• merge aliex's thesis work

very controversial

• destroy areas
• chromium-like UI

Hacking TODO

• remove/disable/fix failing unit tests
• [DONE] fix QWarnings (esp. timer issues etc.)
  • Milian: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-16558 - fixed in Qt 4.8.0
• go through review requests
• extended cli support (open in existing instance)
  • requires extended dbus interface
  • note David's kdevelop_attach
• krunner integration (session)

Browser-like Tabs TODO

• remove Ctrl-T or bind it to what Ctrl-N does
• Ctrl-N should open new file in a new tab