[Kde-pim] What to do

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Fred Wade wrote:
> On Saturday 18 April 2009, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Hi Tyler,
> >
> > On Friday 17 April 2009, Tyler Southwick wrote:
> > > I've been using KDE for a long time and have recently started to
> > > use Kontact.  I want to help with the development on this.  Where
> > > can I start? Also, the site for kontact (http://www.kontact.org/)
> > > seems to be really out of date. Thanks!
> >
> > Right. We are trying to move the data to the KDE TechBase Wiki,
> > especially the development related stuff.
> >
> > The main page [1] there is not very well structured either, but I
> > guess it at least links to all the relevant information.
> >
> > Generally, KDE PIM development is mainly focused on migrating our
> > application and storage backends to the Akonadi [2] infrastructure.
> >
> > While there is obviously lots of things that can be done in that
> > area, there are also lots of opportunities to work on the
> > applications themselves. For example KMail has a special page [3]
> > dedicated to so called "Junior Jobs", i.e. development tasks the
> > maintainer judged to be doable by a new comer without needing too
> > much knowledge about the whole code base.
> >
> > For dicussion and review of patches we are using a web based
> > reviewboard application [4]. Any other form of discussion or
> > questions can be directed to this mailinglist or our main IRC
> > channel (#kontact on the freenode network).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> >
> > [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM
> > [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi
> > [3] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/KMail_Junior_Jobs
> > [4] http://reviewboard.kde.org
>
> I'd also like to start helping out, but I'm having a lot of trouble
> setting up a development environment under Gentoo KDE 3.5. I've had
> to download a lot of masked packages and I'm still not there. Am I
> going down the wrong path? I'm not ready to upgrade to KDE 4 for day
> to day use as it is still masked.
>
> I have another machine with Kubuntu and KDE 4.2. Would it be better
> to use this for development?
>
> I could also set up a partition on my main machine and install
> another linux distribution. Any recommendations?
>
> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

As Kevin wrote it's best to fetch KDE via SVN. I suggest to have a look 
at http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started . There are several 
documents describing how to setup your system for development of KDE 4.


Regards,
Ingo
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