Re: opieII

Hello Lorn,

Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 9:59:07 PM, you wrote:

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>>>>>>
>>>>> http://projects.linuxtogo.org/projects/opie/
>>>>   Er, if it's called OpieII, why it's project name is "opie"?
>> 
>>> OpieII is just the name to distinguish it from Opie 1. Opie being the 
>>> project name, because I assume it will be named Opie. :)
>> 
>> 
>>   Sorry, but you asked for objections, and here it is: are there
>> grounds for new product and project focused around *its* development
>> (you told that "old" OPIE (opie0 ?) remains where it was) to be named
>> just the same as old product/project hosted in another place?


> I thought it was the best thing to do. I could have named it 
> rumplestiltskin, but that is too many buttons to press when using 
> commandlines.

> Originally I was going to just tag opie, and then delete all the files
> in main to add the new code there. This presented a few undesirable 
> things. :)
> I could have started a new tree at handhelds, but then we would still 
> have to deal with problems with admin of new developers and such. I 
> could have tried to move the old code to linuxtogo with the new code, 
> but then we would miss all the cvs versioning fun behind it.

> Best of both worlds is keep opie based on qtopia 1 here, start the 
> project for qtopia 4.2 based opie at linuxtogo.

> and since there are very few developers left, I being one from since the
> beginning, i took it upon myself to do these actions.

  Well, I don't ask you why you chose hosting details as you did - I'm
noone to ask that. But asking about the name is something I can do
merely as an "advanced user" who cares about such things as userbase
confusion.

  So, the quick suggestion I still have: please consider quickly,
until something got imported into just created project, register new
project space "opie2", to correspond to the name of the new product,
and request deletion of the old one.

   That's going to be beneficial for new (sub)project first of all,
as will clearly ring the bell that it's something new and exciting
(because some part of userbase was already PRed into thinking that
OPIE is something old and unmaintained), will save users from the
confusion, and yes, should help you from getting flame a-la there was
for GPE. (Note that my concern if first 2 points above, first of all.)

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> I have disclosed my plans.
> So far, that _is_ the plan -> being based on Qtopia 4.2. No plans other
> than that at this time. First part of plan is to let TT release code so
> we can fork it.

> Although I suggest we use some differing graphics, fix a few silly bugs
> and things which I think are silly/not working yet in Qtopia, and add 
> some new device configurations for all those poor fellows that have iPaqs.

  I guess, that's additional good reasons to use different name,
even if it's "internal name hosting name". I personally wouldn't want
that after so many years of many people's work, it turned out that all
what "opie" is something waiting for upstream release to just
start, having vague feature requirements, and barely any working code.
Because OPIE is not like that - it's UI framework in production state
for many yes, suitable for immediate use. And most people won't notice
difference in case. (But hopefully trained enough to known that X and
X2 may be pretty different things.)



-- 
Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:[email protected]

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