[KDE-India] A newbie

Mon Feb 24 07:28:31 UTC 2014

Hi Deep,

Thanks for your email, nice to hear from you! Also good to know that you
found Qt/KDE interesting enough that you want to contribute. In fact, if
you talk around, we have lots of people in KDE who aren't necessarily from
CS backgrounds, it really doesn't matter :) Also, usually starting with
bugfixes is a great idea, you should use few applications and see if you
can fix bugs in them.

Around the suggestions you had, we've had that idea and have tried it but
the sheer lack of infrastructure (good Internet, for example) makes it very
difficult. Add the huge number of attendees and it becomes even harder to
manage (if you remember how difficult it was to just do Qt basics workshop
on Friday). So, we continuously strive to do such workshops, maybe we will
have one day :) Still, the things you mentioned are something a
self-motivated person (like you) will figure out pretty easily. Also, I
personally took few weeks to put my first patch, but during those few weeks
I learned what I would've never if somebody just told me the steps. So I
think its pretty important for this to come by self-motivation rather than
a formal instructor.

As always, feel free to ask questions when you get stuck :)

Cheers,

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Deep Laxman Sukhwani <
deepsukhwani at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have been attending this years KDE conference and I must say it is truly
> an amazing experience and the amount and kind of information shared by
> fellow speakers is of utmost value.
>
> I am too looking to begin contributing to KDE community, however so far I
> have learnt some Python through some CS courses online on sites like
> Coursera / Udacity and been involved in learning some JavaScript (mainly
> due to work related stuff). I work as a Testing Engineer for Musikaar
> Software, Ahmedabad.
>
> By qualification, I do not have any computer science qualifications, in
> fact I am qualified Chartered Accountant, however I am really keen on
> contributing to open source and after learning about Qt and its vast
> capabilities, I really want to get into more depth of it. I know a bit of
> C++, however I am still learning advanced C++ topics via online tutorials.
> Can you guide me if it is the right approach to complete some set of C++
> tutorials (like through learncpp.com) and jump straight to Qt and try to
> work on junior jobs or start observing bugs and see how I can contribute?
>
> Also, I have Mac as primary operating system and Ubuntu in virtual
> environment, I would like to install Kubuntu as per your recommendation,
> just a small doubt, should I proceed with 32-bit or 64-bit installation of
> Kubuntu 13.10? Reason I thought I would ask this is you guys are really
> experienced and you know ins and outs of what all problems can beginners
> like myself face. So just needed some guidance from you.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Apart from this, I just wanted to put a general suggestion for a hands on
> workshop in this or upcoming KDE Conference: It would be awesome if someone
> could make us go through complete process right from the beginning to start
> contributing to KDE community, like one of the speakers said today it took
> him almost 9 months to submit his first patch. So say for example someone
> could tell us process may be in a format similar to like this:
>
>
>    - Signing up on KDE to be able to submit patches
>    - Writing first set of code
>    - Checking if there are any bugs reported for the patch that we are
>    about to submit
>    - If there is not any bug, we can file a bug for it ourselves to keep
>    track on it.
>    - Then the process to commit / check-in our created patches and how to
>    submit them.
>    - Then attach to the relevant bugs our commit ids through which we are
>    committing patches so that we can easily track progress.
>
> Of course this is just a sample process flow I was recommending.
>
> Thanks, I look forward to your response.
>
> --
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> Deep L Sukhwani
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>
> On 22 February 2014 17:46, R.Harish Navnit <harishnavnit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Devanshu ,
>>
>>                      I too am a newbie like you, interested in
>> contributing to the plasma-mediacenter project. I would just like to share
>> my little experiences with you.
>>
>> I would recomend that you use Kubuntu 13.10 for development(building
>> etc), though I won't say it's a must. I was able to build the same in
>> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
>>
>> But building in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was insanely tedious for me, if you look
>> into the mailing list archives(plasma-devel) , you can find couple of
>> lengthy threads started by me stating my problems during the build an
>> Sinny,Shantanu,Sujith and others trying to help me with it. By the end of
>> all this, Shantanu had come to the conclusion that I had special powers
>> that could attract errors towards me ;)
>>
>> You will probably face multiple errors, and if you are a beginner, this
>> can be intimidating. Hence it would be great if you could start working
>> with Kubuntu 13.10, building in which, is quite literally a piece of cake :)
>>
>> Finally, since you are a student of DA-IICT, I'm assuming that you have
>> been attending the events in the conf.kde.in. How has your experience
>> been ? I too was very intent on trying to make it there, but there were
>> many factors that made me decide against it. So, please do share your
>> experience if you can.
>>
>> Have a nice time working with PMC :)
>>
>>
>> Warm Regards.
>>
>> Thanking You,
>> R.Harish Navnit
>> The Enigma <http://harishnavnit.wordpress.com/>
>>
>> R.Harish Navnit
>> The Enigma <http://harishnavnit.wordpress.com>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Devanshu,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the intro and welcome to KDE :) It will be helpful if you
>>> join the plasma-devel project at
>>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel  so that you can ask
>>> Plasma specific questions there.
>>>
>>> For PMC, http://sinny.in/pmcinstall should take you to the build
>>> instructions.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Devanshu Jain <
>>> devanshu.jain919 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>> My name is Devanshu Jain. I am currently a student in DA-IICT. I want
>>>> to work on plasma media center. I will be greatly helpful, if somebody can
>>>> guide me.
>>>>
>>>> Thanking you
>>>>
>>>> Yours truly
>>>> Devanshu
>>>>
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