Greetings and first steps

[Andrea Scarpino]

On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 09:47:17 CEST Edson Contreras Cárdenas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Edson Contreras and I want to join this devel group. For last
> three and a half years I've been working daily in a software using c++ and
> Qt and this year we successfully moved from gcc-4.7 to gcc-5.2(c++11) and
> from Qt-4.7 to Qt-5.6. That's why I want to get involved in a opensource
> community in order to help with what I've learned and continue learning of
> these frameworks and what better than KDE.

Hi Edson!

> After reading a little bit the Junior jobs list in KDE web page, I decided
> to join this team because I believe that could help faster. However I had a
> few issues running my built version in my machine.

Nice, welcome a board :-)

> After some debug I realized that was a pragma in code notifying that
> crashes with kf5. So, my questions are: Did you fix this and I'm using an
> old git clone? Should I work in a VM in order to have a "compatible"
> environment? If so, Which version? Which packages? How can I assign to me
> the Junior job?

I added that pragma during the port to KF5, but I never had time to 
investigate it anymore. Free to try and let we know the result.

I don't use a VM; I always run latest git on my daily laptop.

> Thanks for your help, and I hope help the development soon 😀

Thanks, I hope so too!

-- 
Andrea