KDE developer training needs?
Adriaan has posted some ideas for a "UofKDE". I had been thinking along the same lines for developers, only without the first year stuff (which I guess I assumed that people already had by the time they started thinking about becoming a KDE developer). My list is below - I'm currently working on the Doxygen stuff, and some of the other material already exists, although some of the stuff we do have needs to be re-arranged or updated.
I've also looked at course management tools, such as Moodle, and I think that moodle.kde.org would probably work quite well. As pointed out by others, the key issues are who is going to write all this stuff, and whether we have enough interest from current developers that they are willing to act as tutors/guides/helpers for an on-line course.
In the longer term, we could have self-paced user training as well, but I don't see enough motivated people to support that yet. Similar infrastructure would probably be appropriate in any case.
Anyway, things a KDE developer must, should or might want to know:
Basics of windowing - modal dialogs, SDI, MDI, window elements
Introduction to programming with Qt Classes
The KDE widget set
KDE convenience classes
KDE build system (compare with Qt build system?), writing autoconf tests and using automake
Introduction to XML
Using CVS and Subversion
programming for Internationalisation and Localisation, KLocale
KGlobal
Writing user documentation - docbook, author guide - maybe just an outreference to a real documenter training course?
Writing programmer documentation - Doxygen, rough style guides
i18n Translation guide(s)?
shared libraries and binary compatibility
debugging concepts and tools
using and updating kde-config
.desktop files
kdeinit, kded, KTrader, kbuildsycoca?
KWin, Kicker
writing command line applications (KCmdLineArgs and the like)?
starting other applications (KProcess, KProcIO, startServiceByDesktopPath, KRun)?
programming for security
understanding / programming for usability
understanding / programming for accessability
programming for kiosk
Configuration file support? (multipart?)
kdesu / libkdesu
Writing a KIO slave
Using KIO (multipart?)
writing a KPart application - maybe this should be "writing a KDE GUI application", with just a bit on the side about KParts
XMLGUI (multipart)
using KABC
using KResources
using kdefx
implementing a KResources plugin
Using KFind / KReplace
Using KNewStuff
using KTextEditor
using DNSSD
using KHTML
using KPrinter
using KNetwork support
Writing a KfileMetaInfo plugin
Writing a thumnail plugin
Adding a DCOP interface to an application
Developing a plugin architecture
Writing decoration plugins for KWin
Writing a Panel applet
writing KImgIO plugins
KConfig Modules
using kdialog (the command line app, not the class) in shell scripts
using kfmclient in scripts
DCOP CLI and KDCOP
other language bindings
FAQ?
Developers checklist, commit guidelines
If you got this far, anything else? Anything wrong? And the key question - are you willing to help make this happen?