[kde-freebsd] [KDE / QT FreeBSD users] CALL FOR HELPERS: Please contribute to the project! Thanks!

[Sticky Bit]

Dear KDE / QT on FreeBSD users,

we need your help! Yes, -your- help! Why? Please read more ...

I would not write this mail if everything was fine with KDE on FreeBSD. This 
is a gently but urgent request for help.

Main problem is there are not enough contributors at the moment. This is 
really urgent because the whole 'KDE on FreeBSD' project is moving very 
slowly right now. This situation will not change until more users start to 
help us. Such a big task like porting and maintaining KDE on FreeBSD requires 
a huge amount of resources. But the project does not have enough responsive 
testers and contributors. We also need long term contributors and active 
maintainers.

You asked yourself why there is no update of KDE 3 ports to latest stable 
3.5.9 which were released months ago? You asked yourself why you are not able 
to dive into the exiting new world of KDE 4 on FreeBSD because there is no 
KDE 4 within FreeBSD ports tree yet? There are simply not enough 
contributors! You want these tasks to be done? Fine! But then please help.

Only very few contributors are working on it at the moment. miwi@ is one of 
those. He did and does a very good job - also often in the background and not 
really noticed. He has already done a great work in porting KDE 4 to FreeBSD. 
But there is so much much more to do and he cannot do it all alone.

If you have some free space on your disk, some time to spent and you are 
familiar with the ports tree then I ask you to contribute! No special skills 
required!

First create a new user account just for testing purposes so your /home/.kde 
etc will not be touched when you run KDE 4. Checkout the area51 repository 
(see below). Then update QT4 first. Then build the KDE 4 ports you want. Log 
the builds and runtime tests of those ports. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4 
for known problems. Report all (unknown) problems or bugs with full logs (e. 
g. post the logs at http://nopaste.unixfreunde.de/ ) and some details at 
kde-freebsd at kde.org.

It is really that easy! You can do something like this:

# cvs -d:ext:anoncvs at orm.arved.priv.at:/home/kde-freebsd co area51

# mount -t unionfs /path/to/area51 /usr/ports

Thanks to unionfs - which runs pretty well these days / RELENG7 - there is no 
risk for your original ports tree. Just do

# umount /usr/ports

and you can use it like before.

Questions? Bug reports? Something else? Please subscribe to 
kde-freebsd at kde.org at

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd

and mail your questions, answers, bugs, logs, etc. You can also search the 
archives.

Remember: You can really help! Please contribute! You are very welcome! 
Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Sticky Bit <stickybit at gmx.net>