Bro666

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[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 5 months ago (11 children)

FreeCAD has become soooo good!

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 5 months ago

Not really a project in which you would involve the whole community. Maybe register it as a wishlist item at https://bugs.kde.org ?

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 5 months ago

It seems that whatever I say is taken the wrong way, so i'll leave it here.

Have a nice day.

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Thanks for your invitation, then I cordially and officially invite you accept the KDE Invent (Gitlab) access which I requested months and months ago.

A developer account, the kind of account that gives contributors full access to GitLab, gives the power to do a lot of damage too. In view of how malware has been injected into FLOSS projects in the past, you will understand why KDE's Invent instance is not an open, free-for-all affaire.

You have to go through a process, wherein one of the steps entails being sponsored by someone who is already a veteran contributor to KDE. This, in turn, entails contributing to KDE for a while, maybe in a non-development role, or by using the open services of invent. If you have not gone through that process, the sysadmin team will ignore your petition.

That said, properly submitted requests for developer accounts are approved all the time.

See here on how to proceed:

https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Get_a_Developer_Account

Notwithstanding, when it comes to bugs, which seems to be your main concern, there is a lot you can do without a developer account. Triaging, for example, wherein you confirm that a bug exists, check if it happens everywhere (i.e. across platforms and distros), and figure out what triggers it is an invaluable contribution that will save developers many hours of hunting and testing.

Why not start there? All you need is an account on https://bugs.kde.org and you will also revive bugs that may have flown under the radar and contribute to getting them sorted once and for all. Your help could be key to that.

For now all I could contribute is by donating money (check the records, it’s public).

And that is much appreciated too. Thanks

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Bugs are solved all the time. It is not a project for the community because the community already works on correcting bugs all the time. If the correction of bugs is not fast enough for you, we cordially and officially invite you to help out:

https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved

Remember: bugs are corrected by volunteers, many of which also have day jobs and other things going on. We are always understaffed. You can help.

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Those are bugs. Not community-wide projects.

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fedora is not a KDE project.

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A gentle hint: If you suggest anything, you must be willing to put in the time to champion the task and carry out to completion.

Also, do your suggesting here by following the instructions laid out in the blog post linked above.

If you don't do that, nobody is going to take up anything you suggest here.

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You are moving the goalpost once again. First to be light the DE (i.e. Plasma) had to be light; then the DE had to be light, but not Plasma (?), but your redefinition of DE as in Plasma, plus a random set of apps (Dolphin, Konsole and Kate -- none of which are distributed with Plasma, by the way).

As that also proved to be light, now you are basing your argument on (a) a poll (?) and (b) that there is at least one desktop that is lighter and that does not need swap.

I am perfectly willing to admit the latter, mainly because it is true: there ARE DEs lighter than Plasma. But it is a strawman argument, as admitting that does not invalidate the statement that "Plasma is light" and "KDE'S software is not bloated".

I wish you would stick to one thing and argue in good faith. You seem incapable of that so, I'm done.

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