-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 First of all, sorry for the cross-posting but I think this issue really matters to all this mailing lists, if I was wrong, I apologise. I see that in various places KDevelop and KOffice are named as the two biggest projects that achieved a lot by a very small team of developers, that also carries the request for help of other developers to make this aclaimed applications (or set of applications) better. I consider myself a developer and to be honest I'd be afraid of putting my hands in either KDevelop nor KOffice. Why ? Because from the outside both seems to be extremely complex things, that can be broken easily. KDevelop... a program for programmers... you need to make high quality code, there are tons of plug ins (and that means a complex plug in structure) and the complex and huge amount of templates. KOffice, everyone bets is hard to understand the native document format (which should be very complex/complete to be able to save that huge amount of information), displaying things on the screen layed out is not something easy (or doesn't seem) and managing filters seems a work for a wizard. Now, is all this complexity I'm mentioning true ? or there are parts of KDevelop and KOffice that are simple and that a newbie developer could help ? If the answer to the lattest question is 'yes', there are huge myths (like the ones I mentioned and more, that I believe and more other devs believe) that will keep new developers from putting their hands on both projects. That's why I'm doing this public invitation to KDevelop and KOffice developers to write some articles to the dot or whatever de-mythifing the developer of such big applications and inviting other people to work with you. Maybe some interviews could help. Maybe the myths are true and there's nothing that can be done. This is just, my humble opinion. Thank you. - -- Pupeno: pupeno@pupeno.com http://www.pupeno.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhYbxtCepaMf3unIRAo9fAJ9udUEiUjBMXsDpEzSqh2A0PrKWuQCfRnV6 p8SdQMLD0fdJsVNvyhPHA4o= =5SO1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - to unsubscribe from this list send an email to kdevelop-request@kdevelop.org with the following body: unsubscribe »your-email-address«