Volunteering

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 19:20, Leonardo Korndorfer wrote:
> > Welcome.  Do you have any thoughts on how you want to get involved?
> > Documentation, translations, or coding?  Any KDE projects that
> > interest you?
>
> Well, I would like to get involved wth coding, but as I know will be a lot
> to read before actually write a line I could do some other stuff, like
> translating which will be better for instance.

If you can code C++ at all, one good way is to find a bug in an application 
and hunt it down, while talking to the app author. In bugzilla (bugs.kde.org) 
we have marked some bugs as "junior jobs" (called "JJs") where the app author 
is willing to mentor someone working on that (minor) bug or wish. Search for 
them -- I think there's even a special link from the bugs frontpage.

Being able to say "I am interested in Foo" is a big step in helping out. That 
could be an annoyingly formatted dialog (be careful though: pretending you're 
a "usability expert" because you think a dialog is ugly is a road filled with 
pain) or inconsistent options. Coming to grips with the tools (Subversion, 
mainly) is another important step.

[ade]