Status/Maintainer of kdf

[Christoph Feck]

Hello all,

before asking my questions, let me introduce myself, because it is my first 
post to this list :) I am Christoph Feck, commonly nicked as "kdepepo" on 
#kde, but also known as "skulptor", the author of the KDE 4 Skulpture style.

Now that I finally have KDE 4 running from trunk, I would like to start 
contributing to KDE, as it seems both fun to learn and to code in. I would 
consider myself a fluent C++/Qt coder (albeit lacking some discipline yet ;)

The experience with KDE code is limited to some reading of kdelibs and 
kdebase, though, so I am looking for a small pet project to get started with 
KDE.

Looking at the current state of applications, I noticed that much love is 
going into Plasma and other stuff, but older applications like kdf seem to 
lag a bit behind. Open bugreports on bugs.kde.org for kdf are still tagged as 
new and unconfirmed, yet some bugs have an interesting number of votes.

So I started to browse kdf code. Immediately I thought "hey, it needs a model 
for its list view, and should use Solid", but going slowly, I looked what 
could be fixed without a complete overhaul.

Judging from the bko entries, there is no maintainer for this application, so 
my first question is, wether a maintainer for kdf is needed, or if kdf has 
been canceled in future KDE versions?

The second question would be what else I need to know except how to write 
patches and posting them to bugs.kde.org?

Thanks,
Christoph

(Sorry for being so verbose but I do not like "kthxby" style writing ;)