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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Budding Developer
From:       Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-06-22 3:26:31
Message-ID: A87C26D3-7879-4141-9F56-E31E3584D086 () kde ! org
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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


 
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