Interested dev / How to participate

[jb at kdenlive.org]

On June 7, 2018 10:54:50 PM EDT, Willian Pessoa <wpessoa at outlook.com> wrote:
>Hello everyone!
>
>I am Willian Pessoa, 25 years old, Brazilian and Computer Science
>student.

Hello Willian and welcome!

>I always wanted to contribute to KDE, but never found what or where to
>contribute. I have been using kdenlive a lot this year - but nothing
>very complex.
>
>In this week, I saw an opportunity to start contributing to KDE when
>Farid calls people who want to contribute to the Kdenlive project in
>KDE Brazilian group.

New contributors are very welcome and we will happily guide you. Is there a specific part of Kdenlive that you are interested to work on?

As a start I would recommand working on a small bug or feature that does not require deep knowledge of Kdenlive's code. I am currently on vacation until the 16th of june so cannot help much until I come back. One thing that comes to my mind is for example the Project settings dialog that has a tab listing the used files in the project. This has to be rewritten to work with the new model/view structure of the project bon. Also linked to this the  Archive feature that needs a rewrite.

But maybe there are smaller tasks to begin. If noone steps up, I can provide more details after the 16th.

Anyways welcome and hope to exchange more in the next weeks.
Jean-Baptiste


>Farid helped me to prepare a development environment for Kdenlive and
>write this presentation - because my english skills are not so good.
>
>About my programming skills, I started programming with C++ three years
>ago. I never saw programming or computer science topics before it.
>Since then, I entered  university and started a job in development and
>support (more support than programming) in an tech company. I learned a
>little about Qt and worked with it in mini-projects at the company. I
>learned Python and Java too while doing college assignments.
>
>Currently, and always, my main interest in programming is to improve my
>skills in C++ and learn much more about Qt. I would like to do this
>helping Kdenlive project.
>
>So, I would like to know how I could to start my contributions to the
>project. Who could help me with that?