Introduction and Bug of the Month

[Nate Graham]

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 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>), 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.