[Qt-jambi-interest] Request for contributors

[Dusan Zatkovsky]

Here is forwarded reply from Bruno Janvier ( mistake when replying ):

Here are my answers. Please correct if anything wrong.

On 1/13/2010 12:42 PM, Dusan Zatkovsky wrote:
> Before I tell you about my work, read this:
>
>       As a new developer, I am missing many basic informations, such as:
>
>       -       where is up-to-date main page of qtjambi? ( there are many old
>               informations on gitorious )
>    
Sourceforge and Gitorious
>       ... and questions follows up:
>
>       -       what is current repository?
>    
qt-jambi-communityport-4.6
>       -       how to contribute?
>               "Contributing to Qt Jambi" on wiki seems to be a little bit 
obsolete ( for
>               example "Qt Jambi is currently under maintenance by Nokia Qt 
Development
>               Frameworks", ...)
>    
create your git clone and commit
>       -       where is official tracker?
>               We can't exist without it. There must exist list of tasks to 
be done to
>               prevent duplicated work.
>    
first tickets are posted here:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/qtjambi


>       I think we must consolidate this, because now sources are on 
gitorious,
>       _obsolete_ wiki is on gitorious, bugtracker is on sf.net, what else?
>
>       Start talking about this problem, because without this we can't 
cooperate.
>
>       If we need to migrate to ONE complex site ( sources, web, wiki, 
tracker ),
>       just do that! There are many of them ( sf, google, tigris )
>       See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/\
>       Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities
>
> Now back to my work:
>
> I have made some simpler "release" scripts, which will create .tar.gz with
> qtjambi distribution ( contains jars, designer, juic, linguist ) to learn 
how
> thinks works ( designer was a tricky job, thanks Eskil for help ), but
> currently I have no time to maintain it.
>
> I have mavenized qt jars for my personal usage and also I created some maven
> plugins to handle jui and ts files, but there aren't finalized yet, because
> they are using 4.5 release and I am waiting for the first 4.6 release to see
> file/directory layout of current distribution and update my code to work 
with
> it.
>
> It is working in my company, but it is far away from final state ( too much 
of
> manual work, because there is not official 4.6 release yet ).
>
> My idea is to create QtJambiMavenPlugin, which will contains all needed jars
> and binaries ( for each platform ) embedded. It'll help to create mavenized
> qtjambi projects without requirement to manually download qtjambi and
> configuring environment.
>
> But as I say, I have absolutelly no free time now for this task.
>
> Now some questions:
>
> -     is it possible to split qtjambi to smaller jars ( core, gui, ... ) 
like in c++?
>    
I don't know, but you can post a ticket about that. It's interesting.

> -     original 4.5 sources are "chaotic", it need some rearrangement.
>       It is hard to identify sources, generated sources and targets, 
everything
>       builds together in the same directories ( aaaargh ).
>       Maybe this have been done by Francis currently, I don't know... (?)
>
>    
Agree. It is still done in the same directory and it's not optimal, but 
I won't work on it personally.
> ... maybe I forgot something, tell me what du think.
>