Contributing to KDE

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Teo Mrnjavac <teo at kde.org> wrote:
> 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

Also [5] http://flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/

Cheers,
-- 
Teo Mrnjavac
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