Contributing to KDevelop as a student

[Kris Wong]

> Hi
> I'm a student and I am interested in participating in this year's GSoC
> for KDevelop.( I hope that KDE is going to participate as a mentoring
> organization this time as well.) And I want to prepare for it in
> advance and I'm trying to find some way that I can contribute to
> KDevelop. By now, I have compiled KDevelop and fixed a very little bug
> in the editor part. I'm really interested in the editor, auto
> completion, code navigation and re factoring issues.
> So I expect some guidelines from you to achieve my goal. What should I
> work on? Are there any issues with those modules? Who should I
> contact? what can I do to improve KDevelop? If I have a suggestion who
> should I tell? How to be selected for GSoC for KDevelop?
>
> thanks in advance.

I'm not in any way involved with GSOC, but I've seen several sutdents attempt
KDevelop GSOC projects in my day. I believe the *only* successful GSOC projects
I've seen were completed by David. I've seen them fail time and time again. I
would recommend you set realistic goals based on your level of knowledge. It
would be great to see a GSOC project that adds value to KDevelop, rather
than ending up in playground as unmaintained because the project was just
too big to realistically complete.

Any additions to the language support areas of KDevelop (completion, navigation,
refactoring, etc...) are going to be highly complex. There are several GSOC projects
in playground right now that might be realistic to finish so that they might be
included in KDevelop, you're interested in going that route.

-Kris Wong