He has fans all over the world. Every week he provides us with news from the latest and greatest straight out of the KDE SVN tree. This time the People Behind KDE presents you Derek Kite, the man behind the KDE Commit Digest.
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Nice - annma - 2005-09-12
to know you better (after all we're the same generation ;-) and of course thanks for the digests which keep us all aware of what's going on in other modules. Thanks also for mentionning KDE-Edu :-)
Just like I imagined... - Sam Weber - 2005-09-12
That is, the picture of you, Derek :)
>When I started developing, I was waiting for the digest to see if I made it >to the Digest. Can you provide any tips to get into the Digest?
>Write descriptive commit logs. This will make maintaining changelogs much >easier. CC to the Digest email, or notify us of what you are working on. If >your style is lots of small commits, every so often explain what you have >done up to then.
Good advice. Not only does that allow the reader to understand what is added, but also the commit-digest producer :-D I may skip over something if it sounds trivial. Please, tell us how hard you worked on that feature!
-Sam
Great read. - Michael Pyne - 2005-09-12
I didn't know how much I wanted to read an interview by Derek Kite until I went and read it. :)
Re: Great read. - user - 2005-09-13
I agree :)
Nice interview
Are you being paid to work on KDE? - LMCBoy - 2005-09-12
Best answer to this question, ever. As always, "thanks Derek"!
Last Digest - Michal - 2005-09-13
Is the digest still published weekly? The last one is missing ...
Re: Last Digest - Bram Schoenmakers - 2005-09-14
See http://digested.blogspot.com/2005/08/hiatus.html
Help is on the way.