How to help the KDE Organization and KDE for Solaris

Thanks to Eva and Claudiu for helping us (including Arcor Online GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany for hosting and hardware), KDE on Solaris has a gotten a more centralized support framework with the current core team of volunteers. Mainly we look for people wanting to use, document, deploy, and develop KDE and KDE applications on the Sun Solaris platform - whether in a corporate workplace or at home! See the KDE Quality Team and People Page for a complete rundown on the current and projected resources available to KDE and Solaris developers as well as KDE on Solaris users.

If you'd like to know more, please contact any of the KDE for Solaris core team members.

KDE on Solaris Janitor Jobs

"Janitor Jobs" are well-defined programming jobs that address specific issues in the KDE code base while not requiring uber-coding skills. Since they're well-defined, they shouldn't bog down too badly either. The term "Janitor" comes from the fact that they're often of a cleanup, restructuring and refactoring nature. Not a glorious title, but hey. It hopes to appeal to people who "want to help" but don't know where to start.

This list will be updated as new problems are encountered and old problems are solved, so keep checking back.

• Testing features/apps within kdenetwork/kdemultimedia/kdegraphics/kdepim (etc): More bug reporting on things that don't work as expected.
• Documentation: Help in reading, translating, and correcting some of the KDE documentation to your native language!
• Various KDE jobs for the young and old at heart!

Want to know what other JJ's are available or unsure how to start? Drop by the KDE 'Open Jobs' website.

Porting KDE Applications to Solaris

Nearly all Qt and KDE applications are listed on the KDE Applications web site. Try to find an interesting application that is not yet available for KDE. Read the Application Packaging Developer's Guide to find out how to build packages for the Solaris platform and here to develop for KDE. If you have any questions, ask on the KDE on Solaris mail list.

KDE Documentation

KDE has a fairly ambitious Documentation Project which has generated documentation for many of the existing KDE applications. Of course, there are some applications that have scanty (or no) documentation, and there are new applications being written all the time that will need documentation. If your skill set includes an ability to write, the KDE Editorial Team would love to hear from you.

KDE Translations

Being a truly international project, KDE is available in many languages, and someone has to translate both the application and the documentation. While some of these projects are fairly large, there are some that require minimal translations, so there is a project that will fit both your language facilities and your time schedule. Again, if you can help, contact the KDE Editorial Team.

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