debugging qt, fixing and contributing a bug report (using gitorious)
DESCRIPTION
With Qt's new open contribution model and the Qt source code repositories open on qt.gitorious.org, contributing your code to Qt is easier than ever before. Learn how to take advantage of this new opportunity by walking through the example of debugging and submitting a bugfix using Gitorious. Presentation by Simon Hausmann held during Qt Developer Days 2009. http://qt.nokia.com/developer/learning/elearningTRANSCRIPT
Contributing to Qt
Simon Hausmann 09/22/09
About me
• Simon Hausmann
• Qt and WebKit developer
• Passionate about open source, version control
• Weakness for Italian and Asian food
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Agenda
• Corner stones of Qt Development
• Contribution Process
• Demo
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Towards a contributing community
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Bug tracking
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Internet Relay Chat
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#kde
#xorg
#webkit
#winehq
#kernelnewbies
#maemo
#gnome
#ubuntu
Internet Relay Chat
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#kde
#xorg
#webkit
#winehq
#kernelnewbies
#maemo
#gnome
#ubuntu
#qt-labs
Meet us there
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Code review
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Distributed Development
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Distributed Source Code Management
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Distributed Source Code Management
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Roadmap
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Join us!
• bugreports.qt.nokia.com
• #qt-labs on irc.freenode.net
• qt.gitorious.org
• qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-roadmap
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Agenda
• Corner stones of Qt development
• Contribution Process
• Demo
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First the theory
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Contribution pipeline
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Let's see how it works
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Summary
• We're opening up development
• Join our growing community of contributors!
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Thank you!
• Any questions?
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