From kde-devel Fri Jun 22 03:26:31 2007 From: Matt Rogers Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:26:31 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Budding Developer Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=118248292901372 On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Matt Rogers wrote: > > 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! > it should be: http://www.kde.org/getinvolved/development -- Matt >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<