Junior Jobs: A Cool Way to Start Hacking KDE

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Junior Jobs: A Cool Way to Start Hacking KDE

Posted by Carlos Leonhard Woelz on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @00:16
from the follow-up-dot-story dept.
Today on the kde-quality list, Christian Loose of Cervisia fame celebrated the initial success of the Junior Jobs, which helped him get three patches. Junior Jobs were suggested by Adriaan de Groot back in May. They serve as a "you are welcome to hack here" sign, and mark bugs or wishes that are suitable for someone who is starting to hack KDE.

As Christian puts it: "I started to mark some bugs as JJ some months ago. Now I already received three high-quality patches from two different people (Thanks Sergio and Dermot!) for those reports. That's much more than I expected."

So, developers, remember to mark those easy bugs with a 'JJ'. Some coaching for the new developers who accept the challenge would represent a nice incentive as well.

Or, if you always wanted to develop KDE and never knew where to start, check the open Junior Jobs out. I am sure you will find something fun to do!

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Tell your friends
by Mikhail Capone on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @01:12

And if, like me, you don't know how to code, tell your programming friends about the Junior Jobs list. Some of them might even get hooked on KDE-devel :)

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How to mark as JJ?
by Sebastian Stein on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @01:55

How can I mark a bug report as JJ? I already tried this but found no option on bugs.kde.org. Is it just adding a JJ: at the beginning of the bug title?

Sebastian

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Re: How to mark as JJ?
by Anonymous on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @02:05

> Is it just adding a JJ: at the beginning of the bug title?

Yes.

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Re: How to mark as JJ?
by Nicolas Goutte on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @07:15

There is a "Junior Job" query at the start page of http://bugs.kde.org (for example if you want to test that you renamed the title of bug correctly.)

Have a nice day!

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JJ
by Jan on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @02:34

JJ is Joachim Jakobs, media guy of FSFE.

:-)

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Where to send patches on JJ's
by Uwe Liebrenz on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @07:45

I'm interested in doing JJ's, but I don't know where to send the patches or code I'll write. Is it a public CVS so everyone can check out/in ??

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Re: Where to send patches on JJ's
by Andre Somers on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @07:48

I think posting the patch as an attachment to the bugreport would work ok. Otherwise, send it to the maintainer(s) listed in the About box of the application.

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Re: Where to send patches on JJ's
by Nicolas Goutte on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @07:57

I had tried to make a tutorial on how to send patches:
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/misc/sendingpatches.php

For bug reports, the best is indeed to attach the patch to the bug report.

Have a nice day!

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