New accounts

Always nice to start with graphics ;-). So this grapic shows the amount of new accounts the sysadmin crew made, devided in blocks of 3 months, starting from januari 1999. That means, we are now exactly 10 years creating accounts.

This year we created 301 accounts, in 2007 we created 261. That means, we are creating almost 6 accounts each and every week. People say that getting a svn account for KDE is easy, well that’s not true. It’s fast yes, requests are usually dealth with within 24h, but you need to have a good reason.

You can also think about the consequences within KDE, I admit it’s not my quote, but you can wonder how it is possible that we welcome a new KDE developers almost every day without losing control and identity. Imagen a company which hires a new employee every day. The company is doomed to change and it will be a big problem integrating all those new employees within the rest of the people on the workfloor.

In that regard we are doing a great job. Maybe we can think about a more personal guidance in the first dozen commits the new contributor makes, but that’s food for a later blog.

I also would love to see some stats about how many of the new contributors stick around for longer and if the percentage has declined or improved the last years….

Since the Konqueror team is working hard on squashing bugs, I decided to switch back from Firefox to Konqueror now that things are working again.

I really did not like some aspects of firefox, like the integration with the other components. PDF’s should just open in Okular and all the other stuff surrounding downloading and opening stuff Firefox can not open, seems broken to me. But one aspect of Firefox is good: the plugins. There are plenty. One of them Foxmarks really rocks, you can have the same bookmarks on all your different computers you use.

I wanted the same for Konqueror and as Konqi also support plugins, I decided to write one this weekend. It is a simple plugin, it just copies the bookmark file to a location. And ‘a location’ can be anything of course. In my case ‘fish://some.remote.server/home/toma’.

If you add a new bookmark it automatically copies it over and when you launch Konqi it checks if the remote location has a newer file. With those two options, it just means you automatically have the same bookmarks on each computer.

Want to try it? Get it from svn or if you use opensuse, get it from my
repository. Make backups, it’s beta stuff, but it worksforme.

ps. Please do not make comments about what I should have done instead of creating this, i will not publish them.

If you know any good KDE4 video’s, please let me know at tomalbers@kde.nl so I can add them to my KDE Video archive.