Introduction

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Monday 03 July 2006 09:55, Marek Janukowicz wrote:
> I'm quite proficient with C++, I'm looking for the area I could start with
> and I must admit I'm a bit lost. Should I contribute to KDE 3.5 or 4? As

3.5 compiles and runs and could still use bugfixing; that's one satisfying way 
to work. 4.0 sometimes compiles, doesn't run and needs porting and bugfixing. 
It's very much a question of what you like to do: work on applications that 
are functional but need a little help or work on frameworks that are in a 
tremendous state of flux.

> for the area - I'm personally most interested in KMail, but it seems the
> easy bugs are already fixed and only the hard ones are left. Is there some
> place I could start without having to understand the whole KDE architecture
> before I'm able to write any code? Maybe some "monkey job" in porting to
> KDE 4?

The mokey job is: get the kdelibs snapshot; get it to compile and install it; 
compile some other module against it and fix errors in compilation. That will 
require a fair amount of code digging, I expect, since APIs change and are 
not always documented.

> Browsing through this group archive I've also found this: [Bug 125176]
> service menu management to kcontrol]. Whom should I contact if I want to
> implement this module?

If there is no such module, then it's all yours. You mgiht want to post 
intentions and questions to kde-devel at kde.org


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