Introduction and Bug of the Month

[AnnoyingRains]

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=408919would 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> 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 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.
>
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