On Friday, 2013-05-10, James Tyrer wrote: > On 05/07/2013 04:21 PM, Duncan wrote: > > As Kevin keeps hammering hammering on, KDE isn't a single product. There > > are many that would (wrongly) say the same about Linux, which clearly > > isn't the case, or about Adobe (his example, very good one BTW), or even > > about "Windows" or MS, when the bug's actually in MS Office (not MS > > Windows) or even in Adobe's PDF reader or something else only related to > > MS Windows in that it runs on the platform. > > Kevin's comments are both correct and irrelevant. It is true that there > are now KDE based applications that are outside the realm of the Desktop > and associated applications. Should they be associated with the Desktop > regarding the stable release issue. Well, that is a good question. My guess is that this (all-at-once-releases) will not be continued at the next major release cycle. My personal guess is topic bundles, e.g. "KDE Games compilation", "KDE Edu bundle", etc. > But, > lets only consider the D Desktop Environment so as to not beg the > question with other issues. That's a reasonable increment in accuracy. > The more sensitive question is whether "someone fixing bugs would be > greeted with anything other than enthusiasm". Yes, that is the > question. What do you think? Do developers welcome someone fixing bugs > -- fixing bugs in their code, or do they take bug reports personally and > resent people posting patches to fix bugs in their code? Would they > rather have the bug go unfixed than to have someone else fix it? Hard to say, I am not involved with any code of the desktop environment or workspace products. Prefering a bug to stay unfixed over having someone else fix it would be very uncommon though when compared to projects I am involved with to which I do follow more closely. There it is quite usual that one can see review requests from until then unknown people. Sometimes such persons contribute a series of fixes, sometimes it is just that single issue they personally really needed to have fixed :-) If I find time I'll see if I can look more closely at interaction patterns in the workspace area. I do see a lot of review requests on respective mailing lists but those could all be from active developers. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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