[kopete-devel] kopete development startup guide!

[Mohammed El-Afifi]

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Hello,

I've checked out the kopete code from the trunk(as illustrated on its SVN Access page), with the intention to add the ability to run behind a proxy(as I've been thinking about that for some period). I've also set up the development environment as described on several pages at the KDE techBase website.
I now need to know where I may start. I was wondering if there're any startup guide/documentation for people willing to start contributing to the development of kopete?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advnace.

Regards,
Mohammed El-Afifi.

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On Tuesday 06 October 2009 18:04:55 Mohammed El-Afifi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've checked out the kopete code from the trunk(as illustrated on its SVN
>  Access page), with the intention to add the ability to run behind a
>  proxy(as I've been thinking about that for some period).
I may be completely wrong here, but isn't this kind of thing related to
kdelibs? Furthermore, IIRC Kopete still uses a lot of k3support classes that
may complicate things a little bit more. But, as I said, I'm not really sure.

>  I've also set up
>  the development environment as described on several pages at the KDE
>  techBase website. I now need to know where I may start. I was wondering if
>  there're any startup guide/documentation for people willing to start
>  contributing to the development of kopete? Any help will be appreciated.
>  Thanks in advnace.
I don't think there's such guide -- probably TechBase only has some Junior
Jobs list. Other than that, you may need to just start playing around with the
code :/
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@...> wrote:

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 18:04:55 Mohammed El-Afifi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've checked out the kopete code from the trunk(as illustrated on its SVN
>  Access page), with the intention to add the ability to run behind a
>  proxy(as I've been thinking about that for some period).

I may be completely wrong here, but isn't this kind of thing related to
kdelibs? Furthermore, IIRC Kopete still uses a lot of k3support classes that
may complicate things a little bit more. But, as I said, I'm not really sure.

>  I've also set up
>  the development environment as described on several pages at the KDE
>  techBase website. I now need to know where I may start. I was wondering if
>  there're any startup guide/documentation for people willing to start
>  contributing to the development of kopete? Any help will be appreciated.
>  Thanks in advnace.

I don't think there's such guide -- probably TechBase only has some Junior
Jobs list. Other than that, you may need to just start playing around with the
code :/

Yeah, I also think no such beginners guide as such exist, and you will have to play around with its code. 

Contributing to kopete is not difficult, but as there is no such beginners guide if you want to contribute to its development, you will have to take a look at; to what part of kopete would you like to contribute.

You can either contribute to protocol part of kopete, or the plugins , or to the kopete library itself.

Soon there are plans of releasing kopete 1.0 with kde 4.4, and beyond 1.0  we want to develop kopete to more than just a standalone application so there is scope for contribution.. That include making the use of telepathy protocol with Kopete and making use of Akonadi and more.

You can find more more about that in the the mail archives with title "kopete 1.0 and beyond"

If you are interested with kopete with telepathy protocol, its codes are there in playground,

and talk about it to grundleborg on #kde-telepathy or on #kopete .

If you have any doubts, we are there to help! :-)

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[Mohammed El-Afifi]

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Thank you all for your replies.
I checked out some of the suggestions described in the KDE contribute pages at http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute#Qt and http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Further_Information#English and found out that I would really need some background with qt as I've never used it. I'm quite familiar with c++ as I've been using it for several years(; after all my official profession is really software development).
So I think I'll spend some time reading and getting some reasonable experience with qt, then I'll be more qualified to understand and contribute to kopete.

Regards,
Mohammed El-Afifi.

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Subject: Re: [kopete-devel] kopete development startup guide!

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@...> wrote:

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 18:04:55 Mohammed El-Afifi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've checked out the kopete code from the trunk(as illustrated on its SVN
>  Access page), with the intention to add the ability to run behind a
>  proxy(as I've been thinking about that for some period).

I may be completely wrong here, but isn't this kind of thing related to
kdelibs? Furthermore, IIRC Kopete still uses a lot of k3support classes that
may complicate things a little bit more. But, as I said, I'm not really sure.

>  I've also set up
>  the development environment as described on several pages at the KDE
>  techBase website. I now need to know where I may start. I was wondering if
>  there're any startup guide/documentation for people willing to start
>  contributing to the development of kopete? Any help will be appreciated.
>  Thanks in advnace.

I don't think there's such guide -- probably TechBase only has some Junior
Jobs list. Other than that, you may need to just start playing around with the
code :/

Yeah, I also think no such beginners guide as such exist, and you will have to play around with its code. 

Contributing to kopete is not difficult, but as there is no such beginners guide if you want to contribute to its development, you will have to take a look at; to what part of kopete would you like to contribute.

You can either contribute to protocol part of kopete, or the plugins , or to the kopete library itself.

Soon there are plans of releasing kopete 1.0 with kde 4.4, and beyond 1.0  we want to develop kopete to more than just a standalone application so there is scope for contribution.. That include making the use of telepathy protocol with Kopete and making use of Akonadi and more.

You can find more more about that in the the mail archives with title "kopete 1.0 and beyond"

If you are interested with kopete with telepathy protocol, its codes are there in playground,

and talk about it to grundleborg on #kde-telepathy or on #kopete .

If you have any doubts, we are there to help! :-)

--
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irc nick - roide
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Mohammed El-Afifi <mohammed_elafifi@...> wrote:

Thank you all for your replies.
I checked out some of the suggestions described in the KDE contribute pages at http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute#Qt and http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Further_Information#English and found out that I would really need some background with qt as I've never used it. I'm quite familiar with c++ as I've been using it for several years(; after all my official profession is really software development).
So I think I'll spend some time reading and getting some reasonable experience with qt, then I'll be more qualified to understand and contribute to kopete.

Yes, thats a good idea, But since you are very much familiar with C++ and Qt is written in C++, so getting used to Qt will not take much time. 

So why not learn understand and contribute at the same time! :-)

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