On Thursday 10 December 2009 11:31:21 Draciron Smith wrote: > Seemed a might defensive too me, like I stepped all over a raw nerve. > I think the point she wanted to make is that KDE is a complex piece of > software and isolating a specific area is not so simple as everything > is interdependent. Her implication that I was a simpleton and > incapable of understanding this concept was imflamitory and unhelpful > to the conversation. I've worked on large and involved projects > before. I understand the dynamics and the issues involved in large > complex software. Particulers I don't but I'm making inquiries right > now to get a better idea of just what a fork would be up against. > > Given the .kde in her email addy I think technical is the least of our > worries. Resentment from some elements of the KDE project might be a > much bigger hurdle than the actual coding. For the fork to work we'll > need generous help early on getting off the ground with it and we'll > need considerations too keep future versions compatable unless we fork > the entire project. If Lydia is an example of the reaction the KDE > community will have forking off just the UI will not be possible. > > Reminds me of an IBM project I was on. I was asked to fix a bug but > the IBM group who had the source code I was supposed to fix the bug in > refused to give me a copy of the source code. After a couple weeks I > gave up and rewrote the whole thing from scratch. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:20 AM, spir <denis.spir@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Lydia Pintscher <lydia@xxxxxxx> dixit: > >> You should learn your history... > >> K3B vs whatever is nothing like KDE 4 vs KDE 3 like you are trying to > >> spin it here. > > > > [...] > > > >> You have a completely wrong idea about how many people are working on > >> K3B. > >> > >> > >> Cheers > >> Lydia > > > > Is this supposed to be a helpful contribution to the discussion? What do > > _you_ think? > > > > Denis > > ________________________________ > > > > la vita e estrany > > > > http://spir.wikidot.com/ > > ___________________________________________________ > > This message is from the kde mailing list. > > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > I can see a bunch full of KDE3-addicted people, who are talking 'bout reactivate KDE3 / keeping KDE3 alive. So, why don't stop talking/writing about it and do it?! With every new posting in this thread, i have to think more of the story of "riding a dead horse" (http://www.tysknews.com/LiteStuff/riding_a_dead_horse.htm) It fits pretty well... Steven
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