{"id":291,"date":"2011-06-23T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=291"},"modified":"2011-06-23T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:33:22","slug":"so-no-one-needs-new-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2011\/06\/so-no-one-needs-new-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"So no-one needs new developers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/UserBaseLogo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-287\" title=\"UserBaseLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/UserBaseLogo1.png\" alt=\"UserBase Logo\" width=\"204\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do we have a Development category on UserBase, when we said quite clearly, many times, that UserBase is for users, not for developers? \u00a0The answer is quite simple &#8211; developers were once users, and some, a few, users will become developers. \u00a0We don&#8217;t aim to have any how-to-develop information on UserBase, but it seems to me that it is only sensible to have brief information about the tools that are available and where to find information and support for them. \u00a0Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t use those tools, and I&#8217;m finding it very hard to get up-to-date information about the status of some of the tools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/userbase.kde.org\/Applications\/Development\">The Development page <\/a>has several gaps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KBugbuster<\/li>\n<li>KFileReplace<\/li>\n<li>Kommander<\/li>\n<li>KImageMapEditor<\/li>\n<li>KLinkStatus<\/li>\n<li>KXSLDbg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How can you help? \u00a0In a number of ways. \u00a0If you use one or more of these you could<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a page about it &#8211; ideally in Mediawiki markup, but plain text together with screenshots would be a great help. \u00a0We have a new scratchpad area,<\/li>\n<li>Use the app&#8217;s Talk page to give me links to decent material, both for the use of the app<\/li>\n<li>and for any related Techbase pages<\/li>\n<li>We have a new scratchpad area called <a href=\"http:\/\/userbase.kde.org\/Draft:Draft\"> Draft<\/a> where you can start any outline for such information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few minutes of your time could help new developers get started, and who knows? \u00a0You may find yourself welcoming one of those into your project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers were once users, and some, a few, users will become developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,9,8,6],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","tag-kde","tag-linux","tag-open-source","tag-userbase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}