-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 June 2008 17:57:12 Terry Poulin wrote: > Hello,
Hi Terry > > Heard from daemonforums.org about a message going out on ports@ asking > for helpers. I would very much like to be of service if I may... I do > however have one problem -- I'm not familiar with KDE4 or CMake. Glad to see word is getting around! KDE4 is new enough to most of us, you are in good company. > > I'm young and wet behind the ears but learn quickly. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, > Vim, and KDE are four things I love so I'm willing to put in some > effort if y'all will have me. Not to diminish your enthusiasm, but if you got a pulse and body temperature, AND want to help, we will have you :) > > As soon as possible I'll start looking deeper into the available > resources online (wiki, cvs, mailing list archive, known issues, etc) > to see if I can find anything that I can do but I'll probably need > some guidance/direction on what to do eventually...Can anyone help me > find my way if I should get lost? The short answer is yes, the long answer is subscribe to the mailing list (likely already done), get in the irc channel, freenode #freebsd-kde, consider installing a tinderbox http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/tinderbox/, start debugging/testing! - From there hopefully some patches will follow! > > > I have a test and gaming machine with a partition dedicated to testing > releases of FreeBSD and PC-BSD, so I can't really break much here ;-). > It's only got a Pentium D 930, 2GB of RAM, and a nVidia card but she > gets the job done quite well. It's survived several compiles of KDE > 3.4.x/3.5.x in the past and I would love to see her see KDE4 someday. > > > About me: > > I'm an American residing in the UTC-4/UTC-5 time slots depending on > DST status, speaking English and have been *trying* to learn German > on/off bit by bit in my spare time. > > > Since January 2006 I've used Unix like systems and practically live on > FreeBSD. I've used KDE3 a lot on FreeBSD and often enjoy poking around > the files that came with it, trying to find my way in the midst. Using > the system has never been a problem for me, and in fact has helped me > a lot being able to read the manual pages and files in /usr/src/. > > > I began teaching myself programming almost four years ago. Although > C++ was my first language, I much prefer using Perl and Python for > most takss. From past experiences I'm familiar enough with Qt3/Qt4 in > order to use it and read code using it. December 2007-February 2008 I > spent about a week learning Python and the rest figuring out how to > use PyQt3 through the C++ documentation in order to cover the leg > work. It was my first real use of Qt and toolkits in general but never > had serious trouble with it. > > > With varying levels of ability I've used: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, > PHP, and Ruby. When it comes to document processing I use TeX/LaTeX + > Vim and I'm fluent enough in XHTML/CSS to get along fine. Since I try > to only write scripts for use with the Bourne Shell, I don't know any > bash or ksh'isms but I've got no problems with reading or editing > bourne style scripts. > > > I'm accustomed to using SVN, so figuring out CVS via the manuals is no > big leap for me. When I've had questions about the ports system, I've > usaually directed it to reading the makefiles that make it go 'round. > While I get along well enough with the BSD/GNU Make tools.... I have > no practical experience with using CMake or development experience GNU > Auto* tools, only the usual compile from source / installation > routines. I'll grab a copy of the CMake documentation when I get a > chance. > An impressive set of credentials! > > > How can I best be of help? Sync your ports tree, overlay the area51 tree, and install x11/kde4. Find something that is borked and fix it :) Review the Porters Handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/, gives you a sense of our best practises. Scan log files from recent builds, http://goodking.goodking.ca/tb/index.php?action=list_buildports&build=7-FreeBSD-area51, there are others out there, this one is mine. That is a start, once you are up and running with kde4, I am sure you will have something specific to contribute. > > TerryP. Thanks for your interest, we hope to see some patches from you real soon! Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhfnIgACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qA6XwCeNwMdG2oyZPKAHlIgRQPKNM5V liUAnRetqyofOA1020ZIIXLE9kDJzVS3 =S4ak -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
