BKO: Bug dependencies
Thu, 10 May 2012 06:03:28 +0000

This is the sixth blog post in my series bugs.kde.org for developers. During software development it is quite normal that you have some dependencies between the bugs and features you want to implement. E.g. for feature foo you first have … Continue reading →

Profiling of KWin
Thu, 03 May 2012 20:06:24 +0000

In my last blog of KWin I described the improvements in the startup of KWin. Since then I did some further profiling and could improve a few effects to load resources only when needed. E.g. Present Windows effect created the … Continue reading →

Improving KWin Startup Performance
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:37:34 +0000

I haven’t been blogging about KWin for quite some time, so it’s way time to write what I recently worked on for KWin. The big topic of the work of the last two weeks is improving the startup experience of … Continue reading →

Reminder: Update Changelog for 4.8.3
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:33:53 +0000

4.8.3 got tagged this week and the changelog still feels rather empty. If you are a product maintainer please take the five minutes to build the Changelog Generator and run it for your product. Your users will thank you If … Continue reading →

BKO: Versions
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:04:30 +0000

This is the fifth post in my blog series: bugs.kde.org for developers. Our bugtracker supports three version information for each bug report: The version against which the bug got reported The version when the bug is going to be fixed … Continue reading →

BKO: Components
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:00:52 +0000

This is the fourth post in my blog series: bugs.kde.org for developers. Yesterday we looked at how to search in bko if there is useful information in it. Today we start adding the useful information: components. Now again I assume … Continue reading →

BKO: Searching the Bug Database
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:47:58 +0000

This is the third post in my blog series: bugs.kde.org for developers. Today’s blog post in my series on bko for developers is about searching in bugzilla. Now you will say searching is easy I know all about it: trust … Continue reading →

BKO: Managing Bugs via email
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:01:59 +0000

This is the second post in my blog series: bugs.kde.org for developers. For an Open Source developer email is one of the most important developer tools. We communicate on mailing lists, receive review requests through emails, get notified about new … Continue reading →

BKO: All the bugs belong to you
Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:04:18 +0000

This is the first post in my blog series: bugs.kde.org for developers. In this post I do not want to discuss any specific features of bko but want to give some general advice on how to work with bug reports. … Continue reading →

Blog Series: bugs.kde.org for developers
Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:47:57 +0000

Over the last few weeks I have worked more intensively with bugs.kde.org (bko) – our Bugzilla installation. While doing so I realized that Bugzilla is much more powerful than most of us know and that many of the complaints about … Continue reading →