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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Budding Developer
From:       Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-06-22 3:04:50
Message-ID: 116DD060-59D1-4D87-AB66-4E5EE62F6244 () kde ! org
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On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Jeff Anderson wrote:

> Greetings KDE development community.
>
> I've recently graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in
> Computer Science, and was hoping to apply some of the ideas and such
> I've learned through that experience to KDE.  I've been using KDE  
> 3.5.x
> for a few months now and would love to do my little part in the
> development of KDE 4.0.  I've been reading the dev website and some of
> the links throughout that in the recent weeks.  One tool KDE uses to
> keep track of the SVN snapshot, the English Breakfast Network, has
> interested me. Its the first time I've ever seen an automated code and
> documentation checker.
>
> I was wondering, after reading the wiki on the EBN and some of the
> upcoming features they are working on, why there are so many  
> copyright,
> include, and license errors.  Is this something developers just  
> haven't
> polished in their source code or an actual bug in the EBN parsers?  If
> developers are spending more time adding features and debugging  
> current
> features, is there a contingent for anyone to simply clean up the
> EBN-generated warnings and errors?
>
> I'd like to donate some of my time, as I'm just starting out in a
> project of this magnitude, to clean up some of these errors.  What are
> the policies on submitting corrected source code? Obviously I'm more
> concerned about getting corrected source code to the developer in  
> charge
> and not so much about directly committing anything to SVN as that  
> isn't
> the way it should be done.  Developers, please let me know who I may
> contact in order to help bring the EBN issue count down.  Once I'm
> familiar and comfortable with this I'd like to move on to helping  
> squash
> some minor bugs anyone is having problems with.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff

If you're looking for a way to get started, you might try checking  
out the general mentoring program we have to help get new developers  
started out. Check the bottom of the page at http://www.kde.org/ 
getinvolved/development and send an email to the person of your  
choosing.

Welcome to the party!
--
Matt


 
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