[Telepathy] Project revival?

Fri Jun 10 16:43:21 UTC 2016

Hi George,

I'm using github [1] as a platform for TelepathyQt-related projects
development and we have some kind of "dev" branch of tp-qt here too
[2].

For sure, fd.o is the only official TpQt host, while github repo is an
"experimental fork" with untested and WIP features, which is open for
pull requests and direct commits from some more devs. I review changes
and push them to fd.o. Actually, only Niels Ole Salscheider used this
opportunity so far.

That said, I just pushed changes to github. Can you review commits
[3], [4], please?

I think we can release 0.9.7 this weekend. I'll check (again)
distributives for possible patches, fulfil changelog entry, check Qt4
/ Qt5 build and make release.

[1] https://github.com/TelepathyQt
[2] https://github.com/TelepathyQt/telepathy-qt
[3] https://github.com/TelepathyQt/telepathy-qt/commit/8864249479ea2adbb5c88378aa082fa18d55f6b0
[4] https://github.com/TelepathyQt/telepathy-qt/commit/d9354dfe8cca364e4a8c3a44c302ceb714c53911

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:00 AM, George Kiagiadakis
<gkiagia at tolabaki.gr> wrote:
> Hi Alexandr,
>
> On 09.06.2016 22:58, Alexandr Akulich wrote:
>>
>> Hi George,
>>
>> It's great to hear about more devs get work on Telepathy.
>>
>> I'm TelepathyQt maintainer for a year now and I'm planning to release
>> 0.9.7 as soon as I'll made a future-proof commit with fix of
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95376 for Qt-5.8.
>>
>> It would be helpful if someone would acknowledge or review my changes.
>
>
> I'm definitely up for that. :)
>
>
>> Since commit [1] there is no QDBusArgument operators overload for
>> QList. I reported the problem [2] and it seems that the "bad" commit
>> will be reverted for 5.7, but our current approach is deprecated since
>> [3].
>>
>> I'm going to change tools/qt-types-gen.py script to generate such
>> operators in types-body.hpp:
>>
>> TP_QT_EXPORT QDBusArgument &operator<<(QDBusArgument &arg, const UIntList
>> &list)
>> {
>>     int id = qMetaTypeId<uint>();
>>     arg.beginArray(id);
>>     for (int i = 0; i < list.count(); ++i) {
>>         arg << list.at(i);
>>     }
>>     arg.endArray();
>>     return arg;
>> }
>>
>> TP_QT_EXPORT const QDBusArgument &operator>>(const QDBusArgument &arg,
>> UIntList &list)
>> {
>>     arg.beginArray();
>>     list.clear();
>>     while (!arg.atEnd()) {
>>         uint item;
>>         arg >> item;
>>         list.append(item);
>>     }
>>     arg.endArray();
>>     return arg;
>> }
>>
>> As far as I see, this would be a full equivalent to the current
>> behaviour, but I didn't fully tested it yet.
>>
>> Would you acknowledge such approach or I'm missing something
>> important? Comment in types.h says that we "needed to have a discrete
>> type in the Qt type system" and we actually do qDBusRegisterMetaType
>> in types-body.hpp, but at the same time we're relying on QList stream
>> operators overload, which ignores any T parts except the base and has
>> no references to the original list object metatype.
>
>
> As far as I understand, the argument "ignores any T parts except the base"
> does not apply to our type here because T is int and int is a native type
> that doesn't need further operator overloads. But I can see how for the
> generic case it's true.
>
> In any case, I think your approach is sane. Please go ahead and ping me for
> a review if you wish.
>
> Regards,
> George
>
>
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/commit/?id=5f542f3cca13f2da58b82aee2efbaffefeee00a7
>> [2] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53376
>> [3]
>>
>> http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/commit/?id=c7d4858c921c7602dc90d56cdd903cd2cb1111c6
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:02 PM, George Kiagiadakis <gkiagia at tolabaki.gr>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> For those of you that don't know me, I'm an old kde-telepathy &
>>> telepathy-qt developer who's been inactive in telepathy for a couple of
>>> years. Recently I've been looking again into what is going on in this
>>> project and it looks like it's dead, which is a pity. However, I can see
>>> there is some limited activity around telepathy-qt, with some people
>>> writing new Qt-based CMs (cool!). This little activity makes me hope
>>> that maybe it's possible to revive the rest of the project?
>>>
>>> I'm basically writing this email to declare my interest in attempting a
>>> revival. I think free communication is quite important and it's being
>>> neglected a lot recently in the FOSS world, which motivates me enough to
>>> spend some time again in this project.
>>>
>>> As a start, I would like to get in touch with all of you who are still
>>> working on something related to telepathy. It would be nice to start a
>>> conversation about project needs and future plans. So, if you are
>>> interested, please get in touch. I am 'gkiagia' on irc and various other
>>> places on the internet.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> George
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