Thomas Abthorpe, FreeBSD Committer

New ports committer, Alberto Villa

tabthorpe — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:48:00 +0000

I am pleased to announce my latest mentee, Alberto Villa. Alberto has been a dedicated contributor with the FreeBSD KDE team, and it was finally time to punish him with a ports commit bit.

Martin Wilke will be Alberto’s co-mentor in this little adventure!

Congratulations Alberto!

Dima Panov flying solo

tabthorpe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:57:19 +0000

Dima “Red Fox” Panov, aka fluffy@ has been a dedicated contributor to the FreeBSD KDE team, and his hard work has paid off, miwi@ and I have cast him loose to collect pointy hats on his own.

It has been a pleasure being your mentor, Dima, good look, and may your INDEX breakages be elusive

Alexander Logvinov flying solo

tabthorpe — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:40:57 +0000

Having mentored avl@ for about the last four months, glarkin@ and I agreed, it was time to set him free. It has been a great pleasure mentoring him.

Congratulations Alexander. Good luck, and may your pointyhats be elusive

Qt 4.5.3 has been committed to area51

tabthorpe — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:26:38 +0000

Nokia announced the release of Qt 4.5.3 today. It is a bug release version leading up to 4.6.0.

I updated area51 branches/qt-4.5 to 4.5.3. It is not quite ready for general use at this time. Contributors are welcome to check it out and provide patches as needed to make it build.

On a related note, KDE 4.3.2 will be tagged soon, so we need to decide what version of Qt to run with, feedback to kde-freebsd@kde.org is appreciated

[CFT] Qt-4.6.0 technology preview ready for beta test

tabthorpe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:31:14 +0000

The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to announce the first public call to test Qt-4.6.0-tp1. It can downloaded from the area51 repo with the following command

svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/branches/qt-4.6tp/

From there you can use kdemerge to overlay the changes to your ports tree. Please note that you will require some patches from the repo to get games/kdegames4 and net/kdenetwork4 to build.

Our initial testing has yielded a binary compatibility between 4.6.0 and 4.5.2. Please be aware that this needs more testing.

One other warning, the py-qt* bindings are still a work in progress. Dima Panov, aka fluffy@, is currently working on it.

Please send feedback to kde-freebsd@kde.org.

This branch was made possible by the hard work of Alberto Villa and other contributors.

More help for the FreeBSD KDE team

tabthorpe — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:47:52 +0000

The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to report that Raphael Kubo da Costa has joined the team. He is a KDE contributor, maintaining the ark tool, and a recent convert to FreeBSD

More recently Raphael has been our man in the middle, getting the FreeBSD Qt patches merged upstream to Nokia via Gitorious.

Congratulations and welcome aboard!

Qt 4.6 technology preview is available

tabthorpe — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:04:59 +0000

Nokia recently released Qt 4.6-tp1, and I included it in our repository
so we could get some run time with it.

Virtually every port *will* require some tender loving care. We are looking to you, our contributors, to hack it and provide the fixes to make it build.

Here are some instructions for testing and preparing patches for
inclusion to the area51 repository.

svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/branches/qt-4.6tp ./area51

Overlay this area51 directory with your ports tree. I will leave
that as an exercise for you the reader. **HINT** checkout
http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/scripts/kdemerge

Now do this

cd /usr/ports/devel/qt4
make

See what breaks, or won’t compile and fix it. It is as easy as that

You can do some recreational reading at
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6-snapshot/installation.html to get some pointers on building the package.

For instance, through initial testing I noticed the plist was wrong
for misc/qt4-doc, so I fixed it and prepared a diff

svn diff pkg-plist > ~/qt4-doc-4.6.0.patch

Mail the patch as an attachment to kde-freebsd@kde.org, and await
one of our developers to test and include into the repo.

Please note that we have not tested KDE4 builds with Qt 4.6 yet,
so the usual disclaimer applies, “Beware, here be dragons”.

New blood for the FreeBSD KDE team

tabthorpe — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:50:09 +0000

I am pleased to announce the addtion of Alberto Villa to the FreeBSD KDE team. Alberto has been an active contributor on the mailing lists, and now he will be directly contributing to the area51 repository.

Congratulations, and welcome aboard, Alberto!

pgj flying solo

tabthorpe — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:59:04 +0000

The padawan has served his apprenticeship, and has been freed from indentured mentorship. He can now give more attention to the FreeBSD Haskell Effort.

Congrats and good luck, Gabor, may your pointyhats be elusive.

KDE 4.3.1 is now in FreeBSD ports tree

tabthorpe — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:27:41 +0000

With the coa[ch|x]ing of miwi and makc I did my first KDE mega commit to the ports repository, http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200909012219.n81MJlwK055334@repoman.freebsd.org.

KDE 4.3.1 is a bugfix, translation and maintenance update. KDE users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

A big thanks to Martin and Max for their help, and let us not forget the contributors, testers and submitters that also made this happen.