26th November 2004

This Week...

Extended password dialog can define length and strength thresholds. Dell Laptop Buttons Plug-in for KMilo. As-you-type spellchecking with aspell. KAddressbook import/export filter GMX addressbook format. X-Face support for KMail and KNode. New blogging resource for KOrganizer.

A very interesting Request for Comment showed up on kde-core-devel. Waldo Bastian introduced the discussion by stating:

I have prepared some ideas for improving the general network experience, in particular for those use-cases where the internet connection is subject to availability (e.g. wireless or dial-up access)

He then went on to define dcop interfaces that would be used by network connecting and network using software. The goals are defined as:

A KDED Module that keeps track of the internet connection status and that provides DNS lookup service with intelligent support for round-robin DNS.

Design goals:

Keeping track of online/offline status
Prevent unneeded connection errors when the user is offline
Make applications aware of online/offline status
Improve dial-on-demand functionality to kick in only with user-initiated actions.
Improve dial-on-demand functionality by [optionally] being aware of the local net topology and differentating between local addresses (always available) and internet addresses (availability subject to online/offline status)
Improve handling of round-robin DNS by making sure that multiple requests are all send to the same IP. (KDE BR63088)
Improve handling of multiple DNS records by being aware of connection failures to the primary IP and redirecting subsequent requests to a secondary IP.

The whole message, with the dcop interface definitions and more comments is at http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110138106211623&w=2. Discussion ensued, with suggestions and questions.

Harri Porten asked how would a situation be handled where there are multiple ways to connect to the internet?
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110138168521580&w=2

Cornelius Schumacher had some suggestions regarding the granularity of the network status. He also asked whether DCOP would be the best idea.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110138869329620&w=2

Thiago Macieira wants a centralized proxy service.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110139503119571&w=2

George Staikos wondered about VPN and other secondary networks
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110139752229801&w=2

Will Stephenson listed some of the connection scenarios that would arise.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110140499302408&w=2

Jeff Snyder who sent me a patch that makes the statistics a little more pleasant to look at. Thanks.

Statistics

Commits	3125 by 211 developers, 254456 lines modified, 769 new files
Open Bugs	7829
Open Wishes	7223
Bugs Opened	324 in the last 7 days
Bugs Closed	381 in the last 7 days

Commit Summary

Module	Commits
kde-i18n	1158
kdepim	198
kdebase	198
kdenonbeta	172
kdelibs	170
kdeextragear-1	154
kdeextragear-2	130
koffice	114
kdeextragear-3	99
kdenetwork	93

Lines	Developer	Commits
22377	Thierry Vignaud	251
868	Benjamin Meyer	162
1068	David Faure	143
5792	Pedro Morais	125
743	Dirk Mueller	106
18626	Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes	89
7836	Stephan Kulow	83
4692	Aaron J. Seigo	68
4757	Stefan Asserhäll	60
4713	Gilles Caulier	60

Internationalization (i18n) Status

Language	Percentage Complete
Swedish (sv)	99.42%
British English (en_GB)	98.58%
Estonian (et)	97.35%
Portuguese (pt)	95.46%
Danish (da)	94.73%
French (fr)	94.48%
Dutch (nl)	90.6%
Spanish (es)	90.24%
Italian (it)	89.11%
Tamil (ta)	88.14%

Bug Killers

Person	Bugs Closed
Andras Mantia	38
Aaron J. Seigo	36
Stephan Kulow	33
Tobias Koenig	31
Luboš Luňák	16
Matt Rogers	13
Christoph Cullmann	11
Germain Garand	10
David Faure	10
Tommi Tervo	10

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