Introduction and Bug of the Month

[Nate Graham]

Hello Kyle,

Yes, that sounds like a good idea. 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408919 should also be quite a 
challenge! I think for something like this we would need to leave plenty 
of time for people technically capable of working on it to show up.

Nate


On 12/4/22 04:40, AnnoyingRains wrote:
> Me again, we missed December, it would probably have been too busy for 
> most devs to work on it anyway, but perhaps we could relaunch this 
> program on 1/1/2023 as a new year’s thing?
> 
> - Kye Potter (same person as AnnoyingRains,I’m slowly switching all my 
> KDE activities over to my real name)
> 
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 10:13 am, AnnoyingRains <annoyingrain5 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:annoyingrain5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello again, just realised my last email only had Nate in the “to”
>     field, hopefully this one works better. Sorry if this creates a
>     duplicate somewhere.
> 
>     Original email:
> 
>     To get the word out, I suggest we continue to announce new bugs of
>     the month on the kde-devel mailing list and on Planet KDE. Other
>     than that, I don't really know of any other communications platforms
>     we have with developers.
>     Other than just asking nicely and encouraging devs from different
>     projects to give the bug a shot, I don't think there is really much
>     more we can do.
> 
>     For an easier bug to patch, perhaps
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408919
>     <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408919>would work, it's not
>     quite as long standing as the other bug, but still an annoying
>     usability issue with core functionality.
> 
>     On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 at 3:51 pm, Nate Graham <nate at kde.org
>     <mailto:nate at kde.org>> wrote:
> 
>         Hello AnnoyingRains,
> 
>         Thanks for wanting to get involved with the Gardening team! It's
>         a small
>         team right now and can rally benefit from more members.
> 
>         https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329
>         <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329> Would be quite a
>         challenge.
>         Implementing it properly can only really be done in the Wayland
>         session,
>         and even then, it's quite complicated. Of the people I can think
>         of who
>         would be definitely capable of implementing the feature, all of
>         them are
>         super busy right now. So I doubt it could get done in a month,
>         to be
>         honest. But... maybe I'm wrong! One of the best ways to get things
>         moving is simply to care about them, publicize the issue, and
>         try to
>         attract developers.
> 
>         Do you have ideas for how we can get the word out here and
>         generate buzz
>         surrounding it?
> 
>         Nate
> 
> 
>         On 11/23/22 22:18, AnnoyingRains Games wrote:
>          > Hello, I am AnnoyingRains, a brand new contributor to KDE
>         (and also new
>          > to mailing lists).
>          > I have been using KDE software (notably Plasma, Konsole,
>         Dolphin, KDE
>          > Partition Manager and Kwrite) on my laptop for over a year
>         now (and
>          > loving it), and I think now is finally time for me to give
>         back to the
>          > community.
>          >
>          > I found the gardening team on the "Get Involved" page, and
>         when looking
>          > through the things that the team does, I found Bug of the
>         Month, a bug
>          > fixing effort that hasn't been in place since 2015.
>          > I suggest we bring this programme back into action.
>          >
>          > I believe that a good Bug of the Month is a bug that not only
>         affects a
>          > large amount of people, but one that makes KDE look bad, or the
>          > developers look lazy for not fixing it, and I believe we have
>         a good
>          > contender for the first bug of the month in over 6 years.
>          >
>          > Bug 15329, (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329
>         <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329>
>          > <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329
>         <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329>>), is a great
>         contender for
>          > this. The bug is over 22 years old, and can cause
>         seemingly-broken
>          > behaviour. If a new user sees this and attempts to find a
>         solution for
>          > this annoying issue, then they will find this ancient bug
>         report. People
>          > usually don't react to 22+ year old reports well, so this may
>         cause them
>          > to choose to use a competing product instead of KDEs, and
>         make KDE look bad.
>          >
>          > I have no idea how to sign off an email to a mailing list, so
>         I'll just
>          > cut it off here.
>