[Kde-games-devel] Re: Is kbackgammon actually maintained?

[Rob Kaper]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:53:42AM +0200, Nicolai Lissner wrote:
> 1.) Adding a submenu to the right-mouse-button-popup-menu in the playerlist
> with the following structure:
> 
> 	RepBot ....
> 		Tell RepBot ASK Rob
> 		Tell RepBot LIST Rob
> 		Tell RepBot FRIENDS Rob
> 		----------------------------------------
> 		Tell RepBot VOUCH Rob
> 		Tell RepBot COMPLAIN Rob
> 		----------------------------------------
> 		Tell RepBot WITHDRAW Rob

Right, it all looked a bit weird when I saw the patch, but makes sense if
those are the only actual commands available for RepBot. Will have to look
at that patch again. :-)

> So is there anyone to maintain it in future? I am also willing to do this if 
> no one else is interested - but there are some limits - I am not really used 
> to cvs yet (I have used it for anonymous cvs access to download development 
> version only) but I think I am able to learn how to use it fast.

We all had to learn it at some point. ;-)

> I don't have very much experience in coding - this means I write small 
> programs for personal use but most of the time I take existing programs and 
> change them to my needs. (so you might call me a patcher not a coder ;-) but 
> somehow open source software really invites to do this.

And the best way to get into coding is probably just that: editing existing
code. Maintaining an already existing application is a good way in and you
can always continue to send patches to the list first until you're confident
enough. Most people in KDE still discuss options and patches with others for
non-trivial stuff, that's perfectly normal for any level of experience.

> What I already have, is some knowledge about the kbackgammon source code, 
> at least about the fibs-engine of it. I also have something very valuable - 
> enough time - since I am unemployed in the moment - but this, of course, 
> could change any time in future.
> What I don't really have, is a clear idea of the work a maintainer of a 
> kde-included-application would do besides developing new code, reading bug 
> reports and, of course, fixing that bugs, writing documentation and maybe 
> some other user-support. 
> If there is someone who is more experienced than me with tasks like this and 
> who likes to continue Jens' work, I would be glad to continue to send more 
> patches for kbackgammon.

Apparently you're the first to step up, so I suggest you give it a go and
familiarize yourself with CVS and KDE a bit more and once confident, you can
take over maintainership officially. Probably would be normal procedure to
send a few more patches before getting CVS access, I'm not exactly sure how
strict the policy is.. you appear benovalent though, so read up a bit on CVS
commands and then read:

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/howto/cvsaccount.html
http://developer.kde.org/policies/commitpolicy.html

Some other good resources are:

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/developer-faq.html
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/checklist.html

Rob
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