kde-quality update (was: kde-quality @ LinuxTag .. spread the word!)

[Fabrice Mous]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 15:38, Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
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|  This is great, Fabrice, thank you, and welcome on board.
|
|  For KDE quality, we have two main events ahead: the bug hunting season
|  and the new release season.
|
|  The bug hunting season deserves a call to arms, inviting people to check
|  if old bugs are still valid, and do do general bug management. I will
|  have a look in the bug management guide to see if we can update before
|  we start calling people to help out. It would be nice to announce that
|  together with the beta...

I "smell" a nice announcement for our beloved news site dot.kde.org

|  The new release season involves checking the modules for the status of
|  the doc, whatsthis, artwork, bug work, etc... and update the wiki pages
|  for these modules, just like we did in the beginning of the 3.2 release
|  cycle. At least with kdepim, this experience has been very constructive,
|  especially in the docs and artwork section. If we can find more
|  volunteers, we can expand this experience. I think we can try to update
|  the wiki pages and then announce it widely. On the 3.2 we did the other
|  way around (first announce, than create the pages). By creating the
|  pages first, we can give a focus to newcomers. 

You are the coordinator please outline what precisely has to be done. I jump 
on the bandwagon :)

|  The kde-quality 
|  announcement attracted a lot of people, but most of them did not find a
|  task they wanted to perform.

Any reflection on why that happened? 

|  On a side note, I would like to talk about the experience of eating my
|  own dog-food by helping out KPilot, following the holistic approach
|  (looking to the application as a whole).
|
|  I have been working on bug hunting, documentation, whatsthis, some
|  usability, and even artwork. I plan to write an article about "cool
|  things to do with KPilot" when KDE 3.3 is out. The feedback from the
|  maintainers and coders has been great. It is amazing how much they
|  listen to you after you start sending some documentation patches :) It
|  has been a very fun ride so far, and I invite you to select an
|  application you like and start helping out right now.

So an article called "cool things to do with KPilot" which talks about KPilot 
being worked through by the KDE Quality Team (read: you)

|  For people who never wrote documentation before, learning the docbook
|  format is a bit time consuming. Using quanta as the docbook editor helps
|  a lot. I plan to create a docbook toolbar for quanta to make things even
|  easier, and to update the documentation section of the kde quality
|  howto.

Maybe we can write a separate howto for it and get it announced. 

|  I would appreciate if someone could help me out to increase the mention
|  of
|  kde-quality in the kde.org site, especially http://www.kde.org/support.

Well I guess we need to ask people @ kde-www 
I will ask this

|  The guides we have available in the quality site and the wiki are
|  excellent. We need more links to them. I plan to maintain and update
|  them for the foreseeable future.

Well that's cool. Those guides defintely need more attention. 

Ciao' 

Fab

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