New contributor: what I can work on

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Alexis!

On Sat, 14 May 2022 19:56:11 +0200
Alexis Horner <alexis.horner at tum.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am a 3rd year Bachelor student currently participating in the Open Source
> Lab at TUM, Germany. As part of this course, I would like to participate in
> the development of Gwenview.
> 
> I have limited experience in c++ and Qt from my high school diploma project.
> My university courses were more focused on Java, Scala and C. I am currently
> following a course on modern c++ practises. I have no experience in open
> source development. I am developing on Kubuntu 22.04 with CLion and have
> managed to compile Gwenview with kdesrc-build. Here are some issues I could
> work on: (399069) allow edit metadata
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399069 (451503) Strange behaviour when
> opening two image files at once from Dolphin
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451503 (251341) Support for recursive
> slideshow https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251341 (423945) wish:
> pre-buffering of images to enable faster/smoother switching
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423945 If there are other
> beginner-friendly issues that you would prefer me to implement, don't
> hesitate to mention them. Otherwise I will begin working on issue 399069 and
> keep you updated of my progress. Thank you in advance for your answer Kind
> regards
> 
> Alexis Horner

welcome aboard - and good luck. this doc i coauthored may help:

https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/how-to-start-contributing/tos-document.html


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