Suggestions to start contributing

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Chinmay

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Chinmay Bapat <cdbapat92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a 4th year Computer science/engineering student. I love KDE and Amarok,
> and want to start contributing to Amarok. It would be great if someone could
> give me some suggestions / guidelines.

Nice to hear you are interested in contributing :)

As a starter I suggest you go through all documents in and linked to
from http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Join,  if you haven't
done so already. In particular we strongly recommend to read the
documents located in teh HACKING folder of the Amarok source.

> I have looked at the junior jobs and am trying to work on
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300979 .

Did you read all comments, especially Comment #6? There doesn't seem
much left, as for teh shortcuts we would need to discuss this more in
detail, so you should come up with suggestions on this list.

> Also, I haven't been able to compile Amarok with KDE4_BUILD_TESTS=ON, I am
> getting an error involving Gmock that I cannot figure out. I did google but
> haven't been able to solve it. Do I need to do this right now? I read the
> thread about acquiring Gmock libraries but there doesn't seem to be any
> solution on how I should get them.

The problem is with Gmock currently, I suggest you build with
KDE4_BUILD_TESTS=OFF for now, as we need to find a way to make Gmock
usable again: as it seems one has to compile it specifically for each
application, so it is currently not possible to use gmock as is. We
are trying to find a solution about this, but doesn't seem so easy to
solve, unfortunately.

Regards, Myriam

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