Advice for a student who wants to contribute in KDE-Telepathy source code / Furkan T.

[David Edmundson]

Join us in #kde-telepathy on IRC, and we'll help to get everything compiled
up.
Make sure to follow:
http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration/Getting_Set_Up

If you're struggling getting compiled using that guide please let us know,
as we may need to update our instructions!

You need to be fairly good in at C++, but you'll probably be ok. There are
many people in the project who are a lot better than me, but all my input is
still valuable. As long as you keep close contact with your mentor, and are
willing to spend a lot of time searching through APIs and implementing
review comments you should be fine.

I think a good starting point would be to help out on some junior jobs, if
you've worked with us before you're more likely to be accepted into the
summer of code program and hopefully it will give you more confidence in
your C++ programming.

Some good starting jobs:

 Add spell checking in the Text chat handler:
(see
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/classKTextEdit.html
 setCheckSpellingEnabled)

 Any of the following account plugins which aren't marked as '(done)':

http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration/Components/Accounts_KCM_Tasks#General_C.2B.2B_Qt.2F_QtDesigner

Hope this helps.

Please get in touch if you have any further questions.

Dave



2011/2/27 Furkan T <furkan._t at hotmail.com>

>  Hi,
>
> I'm a student who wants to participate in Google's Summer of Code, I'm
> really interested for contributing in the kde-telepathy and I've some
> questions that I would be grateful if the developers could answer. I wanted
> to know if I've to be very very good at C++ and Qt to be able to work on
> this project ? (I've been learning C++ for sometime now, but I'm not very
> advanced and I don't have a lot of experience, actually one of the reasons I
> want to work on this project is to get more experience, and I've never
> worked with Qt before but I'm trying to learn it) I've downloaded the source
> code and I'm trying to build it (actually I've problem compiling some of
> them, but I'm working on it to fix it). And from what I see, kde is a very
> big project and each part is considered like a module, so basically I don't
> have to know all the other parts to be able to work on this project, am I
> right ? I see that there are some bugs to fix and some junior jobs todo on
> the bugs.kde.org, I've also read the ideas list for the kde-telepathy,
> what are some advices you could give me ? Where should I start ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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