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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KFormula
From:       Raphael Langerhorst <raphael.langerhorst () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-12-22 17:29:12
Message-ID: 200512221829.12152.raphael.langerhorst () kdemail ! net
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On Thursday 22 December 2005 17:38 Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> Hello.
>
> According to http://www.koffice.org/people.php, there is no actual
> maintainer for KFormula. Is that right?
>
> I've noticed that there were almost no changes in kformula between 1.3 and
> 1.4, and looking at the websvn, and the bug reports, it seems also a lack
> of movement.
>
> That's a pity, because the app is great, and it just lacks a bit of
> polishing to rock (e.g. \sin(x) instead of s·i·n(x)). Do you think it can
> be easy to help the kformula development without previous koffice
> experience?
>
> Greetings.

Hi Alejandro,

I think it's really great that you want to help polish KFormula. In my opinion 
KFormula is a component that is "completed" in a basic way, it does what 
people expect it to do. But I do agree that it could use - or even needs - 
some polishing.

Actually I DO think that helping kformula development is possible without 
previous koffice experience. Everyone has to start somewhere. Here is what I 
suggest you to do:

* Get the development sourcecode: http://www.koffice.org/download/unstable.php

* Register at the koffice developer mailinglist: 
  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel

* Take a look at the sourcecode of kformula. This is splitted into two parts - 
the library that is integrated in other components (like KWord) and the 
application itself. These are in:
koffice/lib/kformula   <-- library (most of the functionality)
koffice/kformula  <-- the "KFormula" application, includes the GUI,...

* If you have any questions you can mail the developers at the developer 
mailing list (see above). You can also find us almost round the clock on the 
#koffice IRC channel on freenode, feel free to say hello and ask for any help 
if you need it.

* You have quite a lot of freedom of what you want to improve in KFormula (as 
I said, there are no really serious problems, but certainly a few things that 
need to be further improved/polished).

* If you want to introduce major changes, please discuss your plans first with 
the KOffice developers (preferably the developer mailinglist, but IRC is also 
possible).

* When you have made your changes and want to send us a patch, please use:
svn diff > my_patch_file.diff
and send us the patch file (with [PATCH] in the subject) to the koffice 
developers list. We will review it and apply the patch if it's ok or ask you 
to improve it if it's not ok.

* If you are steadily sending us patches you can also consider applying for a 
subversion account, so you can commit the changes yourself. See 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/misc/applysvnaccount.php


Further sites of interest (randomly chosen):

http://www.koffice.org/developer/
http://developer.kde.org/joining/
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+KOffice+Step+by+Step


Best wishes!
Raphael

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