KDE Developer Sirtaj Singh Kang Interviewed

highwaytohell writes "Sirtaj Singh Kang is a KDE developer and an official spokesman for KDE in Australia. In this interview conducted by the Sydney Morning Herald he talks about how the KDE project manages to maintain its hierarchy, where he sees KDE in the future, Linux portability issues and the relationship between Trolltech and KDE developers. The article gives a good insight into how maintainers and developers work to maintain one of the more popular window managers for Linux. Certainly worth a read."

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Re:hehe- this raised a laugh

[Arandir]

jokes apart, what do you think are the ways someone can contribute if he wanted to ?

Documentation. This includes writing documentation, going through the existing docs to make sure their current and cover all bases, and contributing to documentation tools.

Testing. Start using the snapshots or cvs and bang away at the daily code. Pick one application you really like (or feel needs a lot of help) and bang away at it from every direction every day. Then submit complete bug reports.

Artwork. Missing some icons for your favorite app? Make one and submit it.

Other areas to help exist as well, and are limited only by your imagination.

P.S: I already want to change the way some RPM installations work - they dont friggin create shortcuts on my start menu!

This is a distro specific problem, but that's no reason not to help out. Of course, working for free for a commercial distribution is not my idea of charity. It all depends on how big of an itch it is.