Hello

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 18 May 2006 18:52, matt wrote:
> Awesome. Well as far as I've seen on the status of KDE 4, you/they are in
> the porting over process, no? Is there still design/planning development
> happening, because that would be something I would love to contribute to
> until I begin coding 

there is always some degree of planning going on. i will caution that it is 
pretty rare (though i have seen it happen) that someone who is brand new to 
the development side of the project is able to offer design considerations 
that are compatible with how things Work(tm) or that haven't already been 
suggested (working from a common starting point: the current code base and 
the state of the art of the desktop in general) it's common to arrive at 
similar ends.

that and due to the meritocratic way the project self-coordinates, it's often 
less than effective to attempt to influence through "design" without also 
attempting to work on the codebase, artwork, documentation, etc... it's with 
contribution that one also finds the ability to influence the project 
design-wise. there have been exceptions, but i also don't want you to start 
with expectations that lead to you being frustrated =)

the best thing that someone new to the project can do is to gain a familiarity 
with the code and the design. and the best way to do that is to start 
contributing in some small, even trivial, way. that is, in fact, exactly how 
i started: with a single patch to the run dialog that fixed a rather trivial 
thing. it was by doing this that i gained an overview of how things work; and 
to be honest: i'm still learning =) that's probably in part what keeps me 
interested in this meta-project we call KDE ... well, that and the awesome 
people and community around it, of course.

however you do decide to get involved is obviously up to you, but simply get 
involved. dive in, enjoy the water, it's warm. =)

> (I'd like to work on the Kaffeine project to give KDE 
> 4 a decent video player).

they have a devel mailing list where you could start doing so ...

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 191 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-quality/attachments/20060519/3c32e9f2/attachment.pgp