Tux Machines

Where bugfixes and new features come from

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 17, 2023

A few conversations I’ve had recently at Akademy 2023 have inspired me to write about a topic I’ve been wanting to share for a long time. So today I’d like to shine a bit of light on how the process of getting bugs fixed and features implemented works in KDE. This article’s target audience is general users more so than experienced technical contributors who will already have an understanding of this. But feel free to read anyway if you consider yourself a member of that group!

To begin with, I sometimes encounter the impression that there’s this pool of developers who either roam around looking for bugs to fix and features to implement, or are told or motivated to do so by some higher authority. This isn’t necessarily a misconception, but it needs to be qualified a bit. Well, a lot!

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