<div><div style="font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">Hello again, just realised my last email only had Nate in the “to” field, hopefully this one works better. Sorry if this creates a duplicate somewhere.</div><div style="font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">Original email:</div><div style="font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">To get the word out, I suggest we continue to announce new bugs of the month on the kde-devel mailing list and on Planet KDE. Other than that, I don't really know of any other communications platforms we have with developers.</div><div style="font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">Other than just asking nicely and encouraging devs from different projects to give the bug a shot, I don't think there is really much more we can do.</div><div style="word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)" dir="auto">For an easier bug to patch, perhaps <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408919" target="_blank" style="font-size:1rem;border-color:rgb(66,133,244)">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408919</a>would work, it's not quite as long standing as the other bug, but still an annoying usability issue with core functionality.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 at 3:51 pm, Nate Graham <<a href="mailto:nate@kde.org">nate@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Hello AnnoyingRains,<br>
<br>
Thanks for wanting to get involved with the Gardening team! It's a small <br>
team right now and can rally benefit from more members.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329</a> Would be quite a challenge. <br>
Implementing it properly can only really be done in the Wayland session, <br>
and even then, it's quite complicated. Of the people I can think of who <br>
would be definitely capable of implementing the feature, all of them are <br>
super busy right now. So I doubt it could get done in a month, to be <br>
honest. But... maybe I'm wrong! One of the best ways to get things <br>
moving is simply to care about them, publicize the issue, and try to <br>
attract developers.<br>
<br>
Do you have ideas for how we can get the word out here and generate buzz <br>
surrounding it?<br>
<br>
Nate<br>
<br>
<br>
On 11/23/22 22:18, AnnoyingRains Games wrote:<br>
> Hello, I am AnnoyingRains, a brand new contributor to KDE (and also new <br>
> to mailing lists).<br>
> I have been using KDE software (notably Plasma, Konsole, Dolphin, KDE <br>
> Partition Manager and Kwrite) on my laptop for over a year now (and <br>
> loving it), and I think now is finally time for me to give back to the <br>
> community.<br>
> <br>
> I found the gardening team on the "Get Involved" page, and when looking <br>
> through the things that the team does, I found Bug of the Month, a bug <br>
> fixing effort that hasn't been in place since 2015.<br>
> I suggest we bring this programme back into action.<br>
> <br>
> I believe that a good Bug of the Month is a bug that not only affects a <br>
> large amount of people, but one that makes KDE look bad, or the <br>
> developers look lazy for not fixing it, and I believe we have a good <br>
> contender for the first bug of the month in over 6 years.<br>
> <br>
> Bug 15329, (<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329</a> <br>
> <<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329</a>>), is a great contender for <br>
> this. The bug is over 22 years old, and can cause seemingly-broken <br>
> behaviour. If a new user sees this and attempts to find a solution for <br>
> this annoying issue, then they will find this ancient bug report. People <br>
> usually don't react to 22+ year old reports well, so this may cause them <br>
> to choose to use a competing product instead of KDEs, and make KDE look bad.<br>
> <br>
> I have no idea how to sign off an email to a mailing list, so I'll just <br>
> cut it off here.<br>
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