[Marble-devel] Contact with Marble

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi,

	Yes, sorry, I had been swamped with day-time work until the end of
last week and I'm only now getting into vacation mode. The good news
however is that during the next week I'll be able to spend 1-2 hours
per day on Marble again. Afterwards I plan to spend a whole lot more
time on Marble for the following 3 weeks since I will be on vacation. 

	So welcome to you and all the other students who got recently
involved with Marble. It's great to see so much progress and
dedication.  

	Regarding the crosshairs plugin: That's indeed a nice piece of code
in Marble that is good to start with. The reason is that the crosshair
is provided as a plugin. Check out the code at: 

	src/plugins/render/crosshairs.

	Another idea for a junior job: Add support for PNGs as a source file
format (right now we only support SVG).  

	Best Regards, 

	Torsten 

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	Betreff: [Marble-devel] Contact with Marble 

	Datum: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 09:58:44 +0100 

	Von: Razvan-Mihai CHITU <razvan_mihai.chitu at cti.pub.ro> 

	An: "marble-devel at kde.org" <marble-devel at kde.org> 

	Hello,

 As a student who just started discovering Marble, I still have many
uncertainties regarding it. I am willing to get involved in this
project but I find it difficult to find a place to begin. I have the
following questions:

• Is there a task list or something similar for getting started? I
have seen the junior jobs on bugs.kde, but I they seem difficult when
compared to some other bugs I've seen patched in the past years.

	• If I have an idea for a simple feature (for example, hiding the
crosshairs while a "Place information" box is open so it doesn't get
on top of the writing), could anyone give me directions to the right
code sections in the sources? The project is quite large and it is
complicated to understand the logic and terminology without a bit of
guidance.

	• Between this mailing list and the IRC channel, which is a better
means of communication with the dev team? I've seen that the channel
is not active at all usually, but I'm not sure whether it's because of
the timezones or not.

	Thanks,

	    ​Razvan Chitu, CS student from Romania
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