Contributing to KDE

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Zephyr Zebi <zephyrzebi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sir,
>
> I want to be a part of KDE community. I am a college student at IIIT
> Allahabad,India. I have some(basics) QT experience(I learned from a youtube
> tutorial of 103 videos). I have made few 2D games like(Tetris,Snakes.. etc)
> in C# .Net. I have made a simple fighting 2D game like Hugo(the flash one)
> in Blitz Max. I've been writing software’s and games for past 1 year. During
> the course, I learned (Qt, .Net, JDK) development frameworks, seasoned with
> some experience and knowledge in programming. I am good at learning new
> languages and new frameworks. I have a lot of experience in competitive
> programming. Am a avid user of topcoder(handle - Redempt1on) I have a
> algorithmic rating of 1369(77.768 percentile). During my ACM-ICPC experience
> I have learned a lot about algorithms. My github profile.
>
> I want to expand my programming horizons to real world projects. I want to
> contribute to KDE. However, am new to open-source and have zero experience
> of big projects.Some of KDE ideas look scary and some of them I don't even
> understand. I am really passionate about this and I don't want to miss this
> oppurtunity. Moreover, I know I would learn a lot from GSOC. I want to know,
> how should I start? Which projects to select? And how to start contributing
> to that project? How to I find bugs and start submitting patches for them?

Hello,

GSoC 2013 has been announced only recently, so it is a bit early to
talk about projects. Organizations have even not applied yet, let
alone selected and ready to talk about proposals. That being said, see
[1] for an incomplete and growing ideas list. Assuming you're a KDE
desktop user, I bet there are some applications you like more than
others. See if you can try and fix some bugs :)
The KDE bugtracker is available at [2], with easy bugs, suitable for
newcomers tagged as "junior-jobs" or with "JJ" in the title. Patches
should be submitted on ReviewBoard [3].
See [4] for more information on joining KDE as a developer.

[1] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/Ideas
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/
[3] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/
[4] http://community.kde.org/GSoC

Cheers,
-- 
Teo Mrnjavac
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