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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kdepimlibs problem - procedure ?
From:       "dave selby" <dave6502 () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2007-06-03 11:25:22
Message-ID: f52017b60706030425p47de9c6rb062352855a19c52 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 03/06/07, Andreas Pakulat <apaku@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 03.06.07 12:01:31, dave selby wrote:
> > OK so I am still new at this,
> >
> > When a KDE4 modules won't compile - in this case kdepimlibs - is there
> > somewhere you flag it to?
>
> Dashboard: ktown.kde.org/~dirk/dashboard (IIRC)

Will check it out :)

>
> > To delve in and try to sort the problem in unfamiliar code would be
> > too big a thing for me to do.
>
> IMHO thats one of the best ways to get comfortable with foreign code,
> trying to fix these small things. Normally you don't need to understand
> "the whole thing", just a small part. Often people just forget to commit
> a certain file or some such.
>

Still focusing on kcron - theres still a lot to fix in it + I am just
starting to get my (wooly) head around it.


> > Or do you guys just hold off and hopefully the code will be corrected
> > in a day or two ?
>
> Well, If somebody forgot to check in a file the first adress is the IRC
> channel for the module, ping the person that did the commit and ask
> whats wrong. If that doesn't work use the proper ML. Also fixing it
> yourself and committing it is fine of course. Often problems are fixed
> pretty fast, especially in core modules. The dashboard results are
> posted into the kde4-devel IRC channel so whoever is around there is
> notified by breakages.
>
> Andreas

Thanks once again for the advice :)

Cheers

Dave



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