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Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project

Posted by michael on from the quality-is-priority-1 dept.

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!"

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  1. Pay by 110010001000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How much do these positions pay? After all, KDE is an integral part of most Linux desktop systems, therefore there must be tremendous support for this from the commercial Linux providers (Redhat, IBM, etc). After all, IBM claims to have made over a billion dollars off of linux last year. So how much are they kicking in?

    Thanks!

  2. It's not terribly original. by luge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess I'm going to post this all over until I get modded redundant, but this is not a KDE invention. GNOME has had such a team for two years now and mozilla had one before that.

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    IAAL,BIANLY

  3. Maybe they should be called Kinetech by phosphorous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [Scene: Initech. Bob Slydell and Bob Porter are interviewing Tom.]
    Bob Slydell: So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?
    Tom: That, that's right.
    Bob Porter: Well, then I gotta ask, then why can't the customers just take the specifications directly to the software people, huh?
    Tom: Well, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, engineers are not good at dealing with customers.
    Bob Slydell: You physically take the specs from the customer?
    Tom: Well, no, my, my secretary does that, or, or the fax.
    Bob Slydell: Ah.
    Bob Porter: Then you must physically bring them to the software people.
    Tom: Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.
    Bob Slydell: Well, what would you say you do here?
    Tom: Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!

  4. Re:First thing to fix by Rick+and+Roll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How can you draw the comparison of any of those things, to things like Gnibbles or Kallery? But then again you're just a gay ass troll so I'll let it be.