Hi KDE Developers. The recent thread about Akonadi/PIM situation triggered me to write this email.With this email I want to introduce myself and offer my time to make KDE PIM better.
I am a huge fan of KDE PIM applications and I use them daily. There are plenty of rough edges but I still like it more than Thunderbird or Evolution. I am 100% on board with the statement that more eyes/hands are needed to make software better. No software is perfect, software is never finished, and it needs constant love and attention. I want to start contributing to KDE PIM, but I don't know where to start as the PIM ecosystem is just too large to fit into my head in one evening. I have a bunch of personal itches that I'd like to scratch, also I'd like to understand Akonadi situation over time with hope to be able to improve it afterwards. Nothing good happens overnight though. I am Systems Engineer (Devops/Sysadmin) with some background in programming (Go, Scala, Rust, Python). I am not a C++ expert but I learn languages quickly (back like 10 years ago I had some exposure to Qt but it was soo long ago). Things like CI/CD, Jenkins, Gitlab are things I work with on daily basis. I want to devote my evenings and weekends to free software. In order for me to get effective and start contributing I need some hand- holding/mentoring for the initial onboarding period. Basically I need someone to guide me through the series of small tasks, and help me navigate the complexity of the ecosystem (often I simply don't know in what library/repo the relevant code is) Unfortunately I don't know who is the right person to ask this so this is why I send this to the whole mailing list. So here are the list of my personal itches that may be a good starting point: - kmail message list: add option "send new email to the recipient of currently selected email" - kmail folders list: show number of messages marked as important, or marked as action item next to number of unread - todo list: add possibility to re-parent a todo item - todo list: filter tasks with no assigned category - todo list: improve new category creation UI (it is terrible atm) - todo list: allow re-arranging columns so that priority column could be first - akregator: add congfiguration option to change the font of the list of articles (similar to kmail message list font) Some of the above issues may already be captured somewhere, I simply don't know where is the right place to search/report bugs for each one (there are over 70 repos!) KDE community made an impression of welcoming and caring and I am looking forward to working with some of you! Thanks. -- Ihor Antonov
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