[KDE-India] A newbie

Mon Feb 24 07:37:54 UTC 2014

I forgot to answer the VM question. If your host OS is 64-bit, I suggest
you install Kubuntu 64-bit and 32bit if the host is 32bit.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shantanu at kde.org>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> 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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