Two weeks, two posts. Lets see how long I can keep up with this!
Last weekend I was part of the KDE Edu Sprint 2017 in the Endocode offices in Berlin, just a couple of days before the Qt World Summit, which was actually my first KDE Edu sprint (if you do not count Randa 2014). It was great as always to meet other KDE developers working on educational projects and I think we got a lot of work done.
While my primary focus going into the sprint was to work on macro support in Kig (there were many open bugs regarding macros), Aleix Pol's initial remarks helped me realize it was better to "take advantage of the fact that we were all at one place, and work on things you cannot do back home" so I decided to see what others were doing and try to help with that as well. Since Sandro Andrade was working on testing KDE Edu builds in Windows using Craft and I had been working on generating Craft recipes from Portage ebuilds, I finished a script that translates portage ebuilds from Gentoo's Portage tree into Craft recipes. This will automate low-hanging fruits like applications that basically only depend on KDE frameworks and Qt5 libraries. I committed this script to the development scripts repository in case someone finds them useful. It is a very experimental script so you are welcome to improve it!
In the meantime, while we waited for these Windows builds to happen, I did get a lot of work done on macro support in Kig. I implemented a feature that allows for creating macros without given objects and while at it, fixed several other issues regarding macros. Some of the changes are still being reviewed, but they all should land before Applications 17.12.
Since I obviously have no picture about my trip (I am terrible at taking pictures), I will shamelessly steal this one from Aleix's twitter post:
I want to thank the KDE e.V. for sponsoring my trip to this sprint, and Endocode for hosting us and giving us essential coffee for free. Also, big thanks to Free Software Foundation Europe for allowing me to visit their offices in the middle of a Monday while they were working hard to maintain software freedom in Europe.
