KDevelop team interview

[John Birch]

On Fri, 03 May 2002 02:26, Philippe FREMY wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As announced, I will begin the interview. I'll submit the questions by
> bunch instead of all at once, to have more of the interactive feeling.
> Please answer on the mailing list. Do not hesitate to make lengthy answer
> with lot of details or unrelated info; do not hesitate to start off a
> discussion. This is what makes an interview more intersting to read.
>
> So, here is the first list of questions:
>
> 1. The project
> - How was the project started ? When, by whom, ...
>
> 2. The team
> - Who is working on kdevelop ?
> - How did you get started ?
> - How long ago ?
> -> everybody please present himself

Started on KDevelop 0.4 by producing a patch to add the debugger.
0.4 hung around for what seemed like ages before 1.0 came out, still without 
my debugger, as everyone wanted a stable kdevelop. (My patch was too invasive 
to go into a stable release). For 0.4 I helped with some bug fixes, 
particularly working with Walter and Sandy, which was great fun.

Once 1.0 came out I added the debugger code to kdevelop and we released 
kdevelop1.1. (was there a beta version that stuck around for awhile before 
this?)

Somewhere just before 1.0(?), there was this annoying guy telling me I had 
bugs in the debugger and why doesn't it do this and that. The result was
a/ a better debugger
b/ Falk joined kdevelop :-)

Currently I'm not contributing much due to work commitments, only just able to 
keep track of what is happening. I'll like to do a lot more that this but...

Some time in the future I'd like to see a kdevelop development meeting in 
Europe, so I can meet a lot of the other developers. Maybe based around one 
of the linux shows where kde has a booth, (although we could have our meeting 
in the pub down the road :-)

See you next week :-)

jbb