Junior Jobs: A Cool Way to Start Hacking KDE

    By: Carlos Leonhard Woelz
    2004
    2
    Sep
    Developer

    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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    Thu, 2004/09/02 - 5:00am — Mikhail Capone (not verified)
    Score: 1

    Tell your friends

    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 :)

    Thu, 2004/09/02 - 5:00am — Sebastian Stein (not verified)
    Score: 0

    How to mark as JJ?

    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

    Thu, 2004/09/02 - 5:00am — Anonymous (not verified)
    Score: 0

    Re: How to mark as JJ?

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

    Yes.

    Thu, 2004/09/02 - 5:00am — Nicolas Goutte (not verified)
    Score: 0

    Re: How to mark as JJ?

    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!

    Thu, 2004/09/02 - 5:00am — Jan (not verified)
    Score: 0

    JJ

    JJ is Joachim Jakobs, media guy of FSFE.

    :-)

    Thu, 2004/09/02 - 5:00am — Uwe Liebrenz (not verified)
    Score: 0

    Where to send patches on JJ's

    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 ??

    Thu, 2004/09/02 - 5:00am — Andre Somers (not verified)
    Score: 0

    Re: Where to send patches on JJ's

    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.

    Thu, 2004/09/02 - 5:00am — Nicolas Goutte (not verified)
    Score: 0

    Re: Where to send patches on JJ's

    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!