de-mythifing KDevelop and KOffice

[Pupeno]

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First of all, sorry for the cross-posting but I think this issue really 
matters to all this mailing lists, if I was wrong, I apologise.
I see that in various places KDevelop and KOffice are named as the two biggest 
projects that achieved a lot by a very small team of developers, that also 
carries the request for help of other developers to make this aclaimed 
applications (or set of applications) better.
I consider myself a developer and to be honest I'd be afraid of putting my 
hands in either KDevelop nor KOffice. Why ? Because from the outside both 
seems to be extremely complex things, that can be broken easily. KDevelop... 
a program for programmers... you need to make high quality code, there are 
tons of plug ins (and that means a complex plug in structure) and the complex 
and huge amount of templates. KOffice, everyone bets is hard to understand 
the native document format (which should be very complex/complete to be able 
to save that huge amount of information), displaying things on the screen 
layed out is not something easy (or doesn't seem) and managing filters seems 
a work for a wizard.
Now, is all this complexity I'm mentioning true ? or there are parts of 
KDevelop and KOffice that are simple and that a newbie developer could help ? 
If the answer to the lattest question is 'yes', there are huge myths (like 
the ones I mentioned and more, that I believe and more other devs believe) 
that will keep new developers from putting their hands on both projects.
That's why I'm doing this public invitation to KDevelop and KOffice developers 
to write some articles to the dot or whatever de-mythifing the developer of 
such big applications and inviting other people to work with you. Maybe some 
interviews could help. Maybe the myths are true and there's nothing that can 
be done. This is just, my humble opinion.
Thank you.
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Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com
http://www.pupeno.com
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