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Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project
Quique writes "The KDE Community is pleased to announce the launch of the Quality Team Project, a community of contributors who will serve as a gateway between developers and users in the KDE Project, and as a new way for people to begin contributing. KDE is a very attractive project, offering high quality software and is freely available. There is a lot of people who feel the urge to give something back, but stop in the middle of the way, frustrated by the steep learning curve. The aim of the project is to reduce these barriers by welcoming these potential contributors, and by offering documentation, support, and even guidance if requested. The objective is to support the new contributors, (programmers, documenters, testers, artists...). Have you ever wished to help KDE in some way, but never knew how? Keep reading!"
the KDE Kuality Team?
What abbreviation will this project get? KDE-Qt?
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It's Kuality, damn in, don't pollute the brand.
KDE Kuality Projekt
Oh yeah...
Tom Smykowski: Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
For 20 years the Desktop Linux user experience. . .
I don't mean to be snide, really, this time I don't, but I do feel a bit compelled to ask which particular alternate universe you're living in?
KFG
Linux version .01 was launched in September 1991. (timeline) Try 12.5 years.
... then I think you've underestimated that figure by a few decades.
Rather, if you mean the relative amount of time it seems that I've been thrashing around in the 'quirkiness' (to be polite) that is the linux desktop
QA is like the ass end of the work. No one wants to deal with what comes out and no one want's to really look at their own.
Evolution or ID?
What don't they read Slashdot? I thought we were the Quality Assurance!!
Quack, quack.
Post corrected to 10 years
:)
Ah, well, welcome back to our universe then, if not necessarily our reality.
KFG
Regression testing? You're implying a level of professionalism that is absent in Slashdot development. I mean, they don't even spell check - you expect that they regression test?
That be the day when the might US government will adapt to german (ungood) open-source (plus ungood) quality (double-plus ungood) software...
Code poet, espresso fiend, starter upper.
I thought it was the volume button, sorry!
Sleep is for the weak.
This sounds like a good idea for an Open Source project. However, it's funny to me, because not long ago my boss was tossing around the idea of dividing the development group I work in into "The Stability Team" and "The Feature Team". Luckily the silliness of this sunk in and the idea floated away into Dumb Idea Heaven. We still joke about it though because nobody wants to get stuck with the crap job on the Stability Team, where you have to answer all the phone calls and fix the bugs in everyone else's code.
One bad monkey spoils the whole barrel.
have you ever tried to bust into the mozilla code? it's easier to become a mason!
If you mean Perl Mason, then that's *really* saying something!
"How much better can you get than kool?!"
Ice Kold?
ThisIsAnExampleAccountGL@yahoo.com
Yes, thank god Gnome isn't like that!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go install Gaim, Gnumeric, Galeon, Grhino and Gtetrinet (gnome version of tetrinet, an internet tetris game).
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
gppp
gfontviews
gcalctool
gtoaster
gstreamer
gclipboard
ggDeskCal
gchch
gboard-edit
gcompri
gMaze
ggv
gunit
guikachu
gtranslator
gedit
Are you gsure?
Koffice - A cough you get at the office? :)
Killustrator - Shows you how to kill trators?
Kougar - Another name for KMountainLion?
Kroupware - For when you need to collaborate when you have a bad cough. Especially if it's that Koffice you cought (see above).
Kallery - No idea. I can't think of a pun. It must be a bad name
KTetris - No puns here either.
-- A KDE user (and lover) with Karma to burn
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
I deal with the CUSTOMERS, so the ENGINEERS don't have to!!
kallery - an application for the weight conscious.
None of that matters when it takes 10 seconds to load anything, and 5 just to open your Home folder. Not to mention 25,000 items on one K Menu all starting with K, and 100,000 items in Control Center.
Gnome works just fine and--gasp--is actually responsive and snappy. KDE wants more sidebar buttons with every release, because when you look at the code, there is a lot of unoptimized C++ going on.
KDE will never be taken seriously because its name is a TLA? I guess we'd better tell IBM, the FBI, the CIA, the DEA, CBS, the NFL and thousands of other organizations that they're doomed to failure because of their names.
Maybe they should all rename themselves with words with meanings like "One of a fabled race of dwarflike creatures who live underground and guard treasure hoards." Then they'll be taken seriously.