Re: New contributor seeking guidance

2018-10-30 Thread Andrew Crouthamel
Thanks for wishing to get involved in KDE development! We have the "junior-jobs" keyword in Bugzilla, which is a good place to start: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&keywords=junior-jobs%2C%20&keywords_type=allwo

Re: Getting Started With KDE

2018-10-30 Thread Andrew Crouthamel
Hi Alex, Thanks for wishing to get involved in KDE development! It's good to hear you read through the Get Involved/Development page, that's a good start. As mentioned, we do have the Junior Jobs tag as a good start as well: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CON

Re:Getting Started With KDE

2018-10-30 Thread Ilya Bizyaev
Hello Gregor, I am not at all trying to put off a newcomer, but I firmly believe that using search engines can help one get involved in KDE development with ease. If you find conflicting answers about getting involved in KDE, could you please report them? It's something we need to fix. Best re

Re:Getting Started With KDE

2018-10-30 Thread gregor.mi.sw
> Amazing what search engines can do these days! This is ironic speech, isn't it? Such thing does not help to provide a warm welcome but rathers scares people off. Search engines can yield conflicting results and the question of the new guy is perfectly valid. Maybe an apology could be issued...

Re:Getting Started With KDE

2018-10-30 Thread Ilya Bizyaev
Hello! When working on open source projects, you shouldn't expect to always be guided by someone. A quick Google search for "KDE get involved" gives me this awesome article: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved Then, assuming I need a simple task to start with, I google "KDE junior jobs", a

Getting Started With KDE

2018-10-30 Thread Jinxin Wang
To whom it may concern, Hello, I am a student new to KDE community. I want to get involved with KDE development to hone my programming skills and make contribution to KDE. But I don't know what work I can do and where do I start. Could anyone give me some guidance? It would be better if we can dis

New contributor seeking guidance

2018-10-30 Thread Remya Krishnan
Hi all, I'm Remya, a CS sophomore and I would like to start contributing to KDE projects. I'm a KDE user have been working on projects in C++/Qt for the past few months. I would like to work towards beginner bugs. So, can anyone please suggest me some beginner bugs to start with? With Regards, Remy