Hi, I'd like to help if i can!

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:58, Rich Birch wrote:
> Hi everyone. I've been thinking about starting to contribute to the
> kde project for some time now, and have at last decided to take the
> plunge and offer myself :)

Welcome to the club :-)

> I am a programmer and know c++, although I haven't coded anything in
> it for quite a while so I'm pretty rusty at the mo. Anyway, I've been
> following bug 94918 (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94918) for a
> while since I seem to be one of the unlucky ones who's affected, and
> thought why not look in to the issue myself.

That's how I guess most people started becoming KDE developers, looking 
in some problem they have a personal interest in. Scratching the 
itch ;-)

> Apart from this, maybe someone could suggest an area that might be
> particularly in need of extra support at the moment?

One area which could benefit from some extra support is kdepim, 
especially Kontact and its associated applications. It's an area where 
is quite some activity, but there is also lots to do. At 
http://pim.kde.org/development/bugs.php there are some links to kdepim 
bug reports. Maybe you find something which you would like to work on. 
In particular the "junior jobs" might be interesting.

> So any info/advice/suggestions on what I should do next would be
> great - for example, I presume my first step would be to get a
> current cvs version going on my system?

At http://pim.kde.org/development/start.php you find some information 
how to get started as a KDE developer.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>