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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!"
Why the hell does every single KDE or GNOME thread have to devolve into name calling between the two camps or attacks on the free Desktops? To save late comers time, most of the comments below are:
-Gnome sucks, I used 1.4 or 2.0 for five minutes and KDE 3.2 is much better
-KDE sucks, it's slow and non-free. Oh yeah, I only used it for five minutes. version 3.0_beta1 on a p-166.
-Windows/OSX is better because they fix bugs. OSS is always buggy.
Desktop environment isn't a religion. This is a story about KDE trying to make its development team more inclusive and improve its quality.