Get Involved/development/Easy

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Revision as of 22:37, 14 October 2022 by Nmariusp (talk | contribs) (make sure that all the KDE git repositories build)

Below are some easy ways to do merge requests (MR) for the KDE git repositories. And easy ways to contribute to the KDE Community.

* Create a new Google Doc named “SpellCheck”.
In the web browser: Navigate to a KDE wiki page. E.g. https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved Ctrl+A Ctrl+C.
In the Google Doc: Ctrl+Shift+V. From the Google Doc main menu > Tools > Spelling and grammar > Spelling and grammar check. It says that we should replace:
“KDE's Quality Assurance team tests pre-release software and proposed changed to make sure that everything works properly!”
with:
“KDE's Quality Assurance team tests pre-release software and proposed changes to make sure that everything works properly!”
In the web browser: edit the KDE wiki page to fix the spelling or grammar error.

* From time to time, make sure that all the KDE git repositories build correctly using kdesrc-build. Run:
kdesrc-build
without parameters. That will build all 400 KDE git repositories. If a KDE git repository built successfully last week,
but does not build successfully today, invest time to investigate why it stopped building, ask in the KDE Matrix channel
(e.g. https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/#kde-welcome:kde.org ) if this module is supposed to build.

Example: let's say that kcalc does not build and that in ~/.config/kdesrc-buildrc I have:
directory-layout invent
In konsole: I would run:
clear
rm -rf ~/kde/build/utilities/kcalc
kdesrc-build --no-include-dependencies --debug
In konsole main menu > Edit > Select All, Ctrl+Shift+C
In the web browser create a pastebin https://pastebin.centos.org/ Paste the contents of the clipboard.
Paste the URL of the new pastebin in the KDE matrix channel when requesting help.