On Friday, April 06, 2012 12:56:43 AM Andreas Pakulat wrote: > Yes, its not the second page, but its actually structured quite nicely, > its a bit like a step-by-step thing. This does mean experienced > developers who just want to know where the repositories are (because > they already know how such things work due to past experience in other > projects) need a bit more reading, but the pages are a huge help if you > don't really have a clear idea of how to approach the "Get Involved" > thing.
Actually, these are all the steps that lead to the repos: 1. kde.org 2. community.kde.org/Getinvolved 3. community.kde.org/Getinvolved/development 4. techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Unstable_Version (*) 5. techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build#Source 6. techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Sources 7. websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/ (*) This page has no other information than a link to the 6th step. Yeah, it's far away from being in the second page. I'm not saying that the website is bad, it isn't. It's a very good guide for introducing people (like me) that are totally newbies in this real software development world. What I'm saying is that, well, if you think you need a guide to see how stuff works and how to start helping, so just read the one we already have. But, what if you just want direct acess to the code? Or, even better, what if all you need is a tarball to work by your own? Even if you go directly to the projects page, you don't have a direct access link. For instance, if you ask for the source code at the KDE Games page, you get this: http://games.kde.org/get.php?platform=Source. > Personally though, if I want to find out where a project has its source > code repositories I'll just go to my favourite search engine and put in > something like <project> source repositories (and for KDE and my > favourite search engine the third hit will bring you to the right place) Did the same for kdegames using Google and it returned the websvn for KJumpingCube as the 5th result. If all you need is just access to different releases of a particular project, access the FTP server seems to be the fastest way. -- Roney >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
