[kln2-devel] qtforum contest

[Marek W. <Mar...@fu...>]

Hi e-body,

I've just heard about a qtforum contest for edutainment
program based on qt. http://contest.qtforum.org/
I would like to enlist kln2 in new version 1.2 there.

The big question is: who should be listed there as kln2
developer? It's quite hard to gauge. :((((((

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Some estimate: excluding docs, pictures and
translations there are roughly:
* more than 21000 lines in files in src/
* out of these:
  - about 15000 were written by me
  - more than 5700 come from other free projects
        (mostly Kiecza's voice recognition)
  - about 700 from you, that is other kln2 developers.
Excluding code written by people (like Daniel Kiecza)
who didn't participate developing kln2, this means that
more than 95% of the code is written by me.
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So there is obviously huge difference between these
contributions. But I really like the fact that more
people got involved and would feel most comfortably
with acknowledging it. I would like you all to feel
being part of this project. :)

Up to now only Fernando and Carlo submitted longer code
(the solfeggio/notationkeeper and tse3 midi output).
There were many other changes done by others, but they
were all small and, in my opinion, qualify as patches.
There was also lots of discussions on kln2-devel and
e-mails, and lots of future ideas. Javier's idea of the
game (which may be quite important for this contest) is
already coded and Mo really got into the solfeggio
discussion. :) Other discussion was very useful, but
mostly dealt with future tasks, which are not yet in kln2.

Therefore I suggest that when I commit kln2 I list:
* myself as "project manager"
* Fernando, Carlo, Javier and Mo as "other developers".

Is it alright? This is a very sensitive and tricky
point. Please let me know if you would feel comfortable
with this solution / think it is reasonable.

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Frankly, I don't think we stand a big chance to be
anything close to winning (but who knows? hardly
anybody heard about the contest... ;), but it may make
people interested. And people form qtforum might have
some good ideas for code corrections.  It is definitely
worth to show them kln2!

Deadline for package submission is May 31, so there are
still more than two weeks. I think we should make a
new, 1.2 release in a week time (which can help with
catching extra bugs), and then a week later submit it
for the contest (if there is any problem with the
package we may get notified, provided it is before the
deadline; therefore it's worth submitting the package
at least few days before the deadline).



The schedule is therefore as follows:
* review the code until Monday, May 17 - please pay special
    attention to texts which users will see (i.e. to be
    translated)
* early next week I will send translation files to the
    translators (start marking your calendars now ;)
    - from this moment on, some minor changes in the
    code will be still possible, but user-visible
    strings should not change!
* somewhere around next Thursday we'll make the 1.2
    release
* in the beginning of next week (~ May 25) I would
    submit it for the contest.

~Marek

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