I was off by 9 people. So? 3 people one guy devoted full time
apparently too it. That's actually more toward my side than yours. The
fewer necessary the more possible a fork is. So if you reduce my
estimates by a like amount then I'd only need about a dozen devoted
people to do the fork on KDE less if there was cooperation from KDE
folks.
Close the thread? Sounds like censorship to me.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:59, Draciron Smith <draciron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Lydia your picking nits with a very fine tweezer.
>>
>> K3b is a SMALL example, I listed larger ones. Rosegarden has what 50
>> people working on it? No there isn't 100 people working on K3b, but
>> there are probably at least a dozen not counting translation efforts.
>> Few if any of those dozen people are likely devoted full time to K3b
>> development but one person doing all of it would be a bit much.
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/multimedia/k3b/ shows that there
> were 3 people plus scripty commiting code to K3B in the last month.
> One of them did a _huge_ amount of work. The other 2 did some very
> minor commits.
>
> I didn't comment on the other examples you gave since I don't know
> them well enough. But given how wrong you are about K3B I am inclined
> to expect the same there.
>
>> Do you deny that KDE arose from dissatisfied people? Were all of them
>> coders? I doubt it. It was a bunch of people like us sitting around
>> griping about window managers and somebody got the idea to build their
>> own. The details really are not significant though who it was who
>> founded the project should be annoted somewhere.
>
> They were not dissatisfied in the sense to do a fork. Which is why
> your comparison is bad.
> And thank you, I know them personally ;-) Yes they were/are coders.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia, who thinks this whole thread is pointless and should be closed now
>
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