Kexi/Getting Started

Ways for contribution

• Tester
• Developer
• Promoter

Communication channels

See Contact.

Common tools

• Reporting issues, wishes or bugs
• Download Calligra to run it

Specific for Developers

• Contributing a Patch (applies to all Calligra apps)
• Calligra API reference
• Building Kexi as part of Calligra (other Calligra apps can be built or only Kexi)
• Junior Jobs

Specific for non-Developers

• Starting: "I am not developer, I cannot or do not like to program. How can I help?"
• For testing, possibly the newest Kexi version should be used
• After starting Kexi for the first time, a new empty database can be created. Handbook (old) can be used to get information how to do this.
• To test support for server databases, access to a server is needed. It can be the same computer as the used desktop or laptop machine, but database server software have to be installed on it. Users that lack knowledge on how to do this should ask someone (e.g. a network administrator) to do so.
• Beginner users may also want to use example database as a reference.

Other information

• General Calligra FAQ
• Contribution options described on KDE Techbase

• These databases are saved in self-contained files for your convenience:
  • <a href="http://kexi-project.org/download/examples/Simple_Database.kexi">Simple Database.kexi</a> (click+SHIFT on this to download); If you compiled Kexi from
  • A database with <a href="http://kexi-project.org/download/examples/large_db.kexi.bz2"><img src="images/tgz.png" alt"" border="0"> Large data</a> (~600KB, download it and uncompress before use)
• Example databases on a database server (MySQL, PostgreSQL) useful to test server connections. Will be provided, more information is PLANNED here. Please offere a server space if you can. Please provide test databases if you have such (must be legal)..

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What to Test?

You can:

• test for crashes or misbehaviour
• locate places where Kexi is ineffective (e.g. for large data sets) or hangs
• test particular functionality and propose entensions, e.g. data importing functions
• compare the application to the competition and identify the most expected features that Kexi currently lacks
• test for usability
• test for accessibility
• test for localizations issues, including support for right-to-left languages, etc. (note: errors in translations to other languages should be reported to a particular <a href="http://i18n.kde.org/teams/">translation team<img src="images/external.gif" align="top" alt="" border="0"/></a>)
• locate errors in the <a href="[email protected]">Kexi Handbook</a>, report unclear or incomplete paragraphs, outdated or missing screenshots (the above note about translation teams also apply to translated documentation)

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How to Report Bugs

• Use the wizard at <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/wizard.cgi">bugs.kde.org<img src="images/external.gif" align="top" alt="" border="0"/></a> (KDE Bug Tracking System) to submit a bug report or a wish. First check using <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&product=kexi&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&namedcmd=all+kexi+bugs">this query tool<img src="images/external.gif" align="top" alt="" border="0"/></a> if there's already similar bug or wish reported. Carefully read advices on the wizard's pages. Specify your operating system version and Kexi version. Attach an example file (or paste a link to it if the file is large). This helps a lot, and you will get faster and more accurate response.
• Related KDE Bug Tracking System's tools:
  • <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/component-report.cgi?product=kexi">Report Count by Kexi's Component and Severity<img src="images/external.gif" align="top" alt="" border="0"/></a>
  • <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/reports.cgi?product=kexi&output=most_doomed&datasets=NEW%3A&datasets=ASSIGNED%3A&datasets=REOPENED%3A&datasets=UNCONFIRMED%3A&links=1&banner=1&quip=0">Kexi chart for bugs ownership<img src="images/external.gif" align="top" alt="" border="0"/></a>
• <a href="http://kexi-project.org/contact.html">Contact Kexi developers</a> by mail or by visiting #kexi and #koffice IRC channels.