KRecipes Gardening newbie questions

Sun Nov 30 21:56:51 UTC 2014

Jost,

Those are all good questions. I'll answer them inline.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Jost Schenck <jost.schenck at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> thanks, I solved the problem by now by explicitly setting KDE4_BUILD_TESTS=ON
> in cmake and got krecipes running fine. I now start with digging through
> all the devel tutorials to understand cmake and git, setting up a good
> build environment and registering on identity.kde.org.
>

Glad you got it to build and run.

>
> I'll subscribe to krecipes-devel at sourceforge. But I think I don't yet
> understand how this gardening (beautiful metaphor, btw!) really works:
>

Please don't subscribe to krecipes-devel at sourceforge, subscribe to
krecipes-devel on mail.kde.org instead. We created a new list as noted on
the Gardening page https://community.kde.org/Gardening/KRecipes on kde's
infrastructure, please use that instead :)

> - does development discussion take place on krecipes-devel or on
> kde-gardening?
>

krecipes-devel

> - are José Lema and Martin Engelmann still out there and know they're
> being gardened? Who decides on a release?
>

I believe Albert talked at least to  José Lema and got is approval for us
to help garden krecipes. He's subscribed to the new mailing list from what
I hear anyway. We suggested doing one release at the end of the gardening
effort, but he asked us to do a 2.0 and another one afterwards, so the 2.0
release is up on download.kde.org. I sent a mail to the krecipes-devel list
to check it builds and such, once I get an ack I'll send a mail to the
announcements list also.

- does it more or less boils down to: when I'm fine with the source and
> find the time, I'll just look for bugs on bugs.kde.org and if I have any
> contributions, I'll post them to
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/groups/krecipes/?
>

Yes, if you like there are links to three bug categories, those marked as
gardening+ those marked as gardening? and those with no gardening flag on
the krecipes gardening page. If you see a bug on the "No gardening flag
set" list that is important/easy add the appropriate gardening flag to it +
or ? (or if you think it needs more info or is out of scope for the
gardening team put gardening- to remove it from the ungardened list).
Otherwise yes if you have patches put them on reviewboard and add the
krecipes group to them (mail about these reviews will go to the
krecipes-devel list).

> Sorry if I sound all too confused and thanks for your help.
>

No problem at all. Very good questions.

thanks,
Jeremy

>
> Jost
>
>
> *Gesendet:* Sonntag, 30. November 2014 um 21:34 Uhr
> *Von:* "Jeremy Whiting" <jpwhiting at kde.org>
> *An:* "KDE Gardening" <kde-gardening at kde.org>, krecipes-devel at kde.org
> *Betreff:* Re: KRecipes Gardening newbie questions
>  Jost,
>
> Welcome back. Things have changed a lot since then, but the basic steps
> are outlined there as you pointed out. Could you give a log of everything
> you are typing and the results on here? One line error message isn't that
> simple to figure out what's going wrong. Also I wonder if we should cc the
> krecipes devel list as those subscribed to that list have been building and
> developing krecipes a lot longer than the few of us in the gardening list.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Jost Schenck <jost.schenck at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I would like to introduce myself: I used to be a very unimportant small
>> time contributor to KDE in the days of KDE2 and 3 and early KDE4, doing a
>> little bug fixing (also to KRecipes), minor new features and user
>> documentation, as well as one or two small projects of my own, but stopped
>> at some point when my job and three children took over all my attention. I
>> don't work as a developer, I'm a city court judge with a love for linux and
>> open source. I would like to get back into development and become
>> acquainted with current KDE again, and I thought KDE gardening might be a
>> good starting point for this, instead of trying to develop something new on
>> my own. I can't invest much time, but it would be fun at least trying to
>> get started again ...
>>
>> I tried to compile the current development version, following
>> instructions on https://userbase.kde.org/Krecipes#Download. Alas, back
>> when I used to contribute, there was autoconf/automake instead of cmake and
>> there was CVS instead of GIT, so I'm a bit lost. I installed all
>> dependencies cmake reported but at the end it can't resolve a couple of
>> targets all relating to tests, like
>>
>>      install TARGETS given target "krecipes-import-export-mmftest" which
>> does not exist in this directory".
>>
>> Am I going the right way, using the right instructions and the right
>> repository (git://anongit.kde.org/krecipes)?
>> Can you give me any hints or suggestions to get started with "gardening"?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Jost
>>
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