Getting Involved

Hello!
I'm interested in getting involved in KDE development,
however i'm not sure 
where exactly to start.

I've got experience writing C++, and i'm learning Qt4. 

When looking around the site, all i seem to be able to find
is some old 
tutorials on writing KDE code. And of course the SVN API,
which i admit is 
still a little daunting to try to learn it all at once
without direction.

Any pointers?
Thanks!

- Matt
 
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Hello,

I'm new too.

> I'm interested in getting involved in KDE development,
however i'm not sure
> where exactly to start.

http://developernew.kde.
org/ is a great place to start. The tutorials
are just now being updated, a bunch has been done just in
the past
week. Subscribe to the email lists and hang around irc.

> I've got experience writing C++, and i'm learning Qt4.

Make sure you understand Qt, it really is the core of KDE.

> Any pointers?

I think you need to define for yourself what 'getting
involved means'.
I suggest looking at the junior jobs in the kde bugs system.
You can
start learning the ropes by exploring what needs to be done
to
complete that job.

Jacob
 
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Hey Matthew!

  I posted this in another thread, but I'll copy it here as
well..

  One thing that really needs improving is the kcharselect -
the kde
character select.

 Basically there's a load of scripts in
gnome-character-select that
download all the information about unicode, and convert it
to c
headers.  We need to copy those scripts into kcharselect and
get them
working.

 It's a fairly key app, but with little maintainance - it's
ideal for
someone to have a go at improving 

  I can walk through it with anyone who wants to work on
this.

John
 
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On Saturday 23 December 2006 00:00, Matthew Lloyd wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm interested in getting involved in KDE development,
however i'm not sure
> where exactly to start.
>

I think the best advice to give you is that in order to get
involved, you 
should find something you have interest in. The reason I say
this is that we 
all have our pet projects and will attempt to sway you to
join one or the 
other.  But to
make the experience truly fun for you, you should find 
something you want to contribute to.

> I've got experience writing C++, and i'm learning Qt4.
>
> When looking around the site, all i seem to be able to
find is some old
> tutorials on writing KDE code. And of course the SVN
API, which i admit is
> still a little daunting to try to learn it all at once
without direction.
>
> Any pointers?
> Thanks!
>
> - Matt

developernew.kde.org is our new developer wiki site and is
developing quickly 
into a nice resource for developers new and old to use to
learn things about 
KDE development. If it was me, I would check out the
following sections:

http://develop
ernew.kde.org/Contribute
http://de
velopernew.kde.org/Getting_Started

and

http://develo
pernew.kde.org/Development

I hope this helps. Welcome to the KDE community
--
Matt
 
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Lørdag 23. December 2006 1:00   skrev Matthew Lloyd:
> Hello!
> I'm interested in getting involved in KDE development,
however i'm not sure
> where exactly to start.
>
> I've got experience writing C++, and i'm learning Qt4.
kbabel is a really key application for all translation and
it does not have a 
maintainer. 

Erik (Danish team)
 
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On Saturday 23 December 2006 16:26, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 00:00, Matthew Lloyd
wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I'm interested in getting involved in KDE
development, however i'm not
> > sure where exactly to start.
>
> I think the best advice to give you is that in order to
get involved, you
> should find something you have interest in. The reason
I say this is that
> we all have our pet projects and will attempt to sway
you to join one or
> the other.  But to
make the experience truly fun for you, you should
> find something you want to contribute to.
>
> > I've got experience writing C++, and i'm learning
Qt4.
> >
> > When looking around the site, all i seem to be
able to find is some old
> > tutorials on writing KDE code. And of course the
SVN API, which i admit
> > is still a little daunting to try to learn it all
at once without
> > direction.
> >
> > Any pointers?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > - Matt
>
> developernew.kde.org is our new developer wiki site and
is developing
> quickly into a nice resource for developers new and old
to use to learn
> things about KDE development. If it was me, I would
check out the
> following sections:
>
> http://develop
ernew.kde.org/Contribute
> http://de
velopernew.kde.org/Getting_Started
>
> and
>
> http://develo
pernew.kde.org/Development
>
> I hope this helps. Welcome to the KDE community

and
http://www.kde.org/ge
tinvolved/

Cheers,
Dominik
 
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