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   (help already found for many of them, see Download page)
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 * Available Developer Jobs
 * Available Non-developer Jobs
 * Current Tasks
 * See also: KDE Quality Team Tasks Page, Google Summer Of Code - choose a task
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Table of Contents    Releases    Roadmaps    User documentation    Developer documentation      Introduction      Deployment (Compiling, packaging, translating)      Policies and Guidelines      Code and API Documentation      Components      Modules and Features in Development      Ideas and Future Modules    Online Tools    Kexi in the community    See also

Releases

• Current Release: Kexi 1.1.3 (released with KOffice 1.6.3)
• Previous releases

Roadmaps

• Porting Kexi to Qt4
• Forthcoming KOffice Release: 2.0 (for KDE4)- Feature Plan, Release Shedule
• Previous Kexi and KOffice Roadmaps
  • Kexi 1.1 Release: (within KOffice 1.6) - Planned Features, Release Schedule
  • KOffice 1.6 Release: Feature Plan, Release Shedule
  • Kexi 1.0 (will be released within KOffice 1.5): Planned Features, Release Schedule for Kexi 0.x
  • KOffice 1.5
    • Feature Plan (source in XML)
    • Release Shedule

User documentation

Kexi user documentation is currently being translated from Polish into English. Once this has been done, it will be published and available for translation into other languages.

• Support (mailing lists, IRC channel)
• Handbook (see also Kexi User Documentation: Issues)
• Kexi FAQ
• Command Line Options
• Testing Kexi tutorial, including information about how to report a bug to bugs.kde.org
• DocumentationDevelopment

Developer documentation ^ toc

Introduction

• Kexi - Database Environment and Introduction to KDE Database Layer presentation from KDE Contributor and Developer Conference Malaga, Spain, 29th August 2005
  • abstract
  • presentation slides (in HTML,  PDF and OO.org Impress format)

Deployment (Compiling, packaging, translating)

• Compiling Kexi from Subversion; see also:
  • Advanced Build Notes
• Translating Kexi
• Hints for making Kexi Packages
  • Known Errors in Kexi Packages
• Packaging Notes and TODOs

Policies and Guidelines

• Generic Guidelines For Kexi Development : Here are just development strategies, not implementation details.
• Kexi User Interface Design: Important GUI changes should be proposed here before implementation.
• Kexi Stability Statement
• Data Compatibility
• Preparing a release
  • See also: Preparing a Changelog
• MSA Stupidities and MSA Annoyances: Things to avoid.
• General Hints for Developers
• Kexi Accessibility

Code and API Documentation

• Kexi Architecture Overview (high-level)
• Kexi Libraries Dependency
• Kexi API Docs online at www.kexi-project.org
• Discussions: KexiDB versus QtSQL, Malaga_aKademy2005_Discussions, Dublin_aKademy2006_Discussions

Components

• Kexi Core Design: Everything that is not related to optional features nor database module
• KexiDB Design : All Kexi database API-related issues.
  • KexiDB Drivers : All about KexiDB database drivers
• Kexi Forms
• Kexi Scripting
  • Script Editor
  • Scripting Manager
• Kexi Data Migration & Sharing : Importing and sharing data.
• Dialogs/Wizards (Developer Jobs)

See also:

Modules and Features in Development

• Kexi Macros
• Kexi User Mode

Ideas and Future Modules

• Kexi Reporting
• KOffice Integration (Available Jobs)
• Integration with Web Pages/Services
• (todo) An HTML part for showing documents embedded in the DB
• (todo) An virtual file system part for storing files in a DB
• Kexi Templates
  • Kexi Form Templates
  • (todo) Kexi Report Templates
  • (todo) Kexi Project Templates

Online Tools

• Kexi in The KDE Source Repository
  • For TRUNK (formerly CVS HEAD): http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/koffice/kexi/
  • For bug fix branches (0.9 and so on): http://websvn.kde.org/branches/kexi/
  • For tagged versions (kexi_{version}_release tag): http://websvn.kde.org/tags/
• Kexi Bug Database -- this is rather internal ISSUES/TODO database for developers.

Using Kexi ISSUES/TODO database: login as 'guest' user, without password for anonymous access (reporting is available: you can add your email address and name to your report to allow contact). Personal accounts are available for contributors.

Most of Kexi users should go to bugs.kde.org instead.

• Source Code Sanitizer Results for Kexi; checks common problems in Kexi code and doxygen documentation.
• Use SVN Commit Notification Filter to immediately receive e-mail about every change in Kexi SVN, and KDE in general. More info.
• Recent Kexi Commits Archive: svn::talk

Kexi in the community

• Testimonials
• Kexi Components For Reuse
• Projects Using Kexi Components
• Partner Projects
• Kexi in the press
• Discussion About OpenDocument Format Specification for Databases

See also

• Comparisons to other database applications
• Private Home Pages
• Related & Interesting projects
• Related & interesting external documents
• Related news & articles
• Related pages
• KDE4 TODOs