Re: opie trademark

On Thursday 31 May 2007 02:40, Benjamin Long wrote:
> This infighting and bickering is pointless.
> Right now, the Opie project seems just about dead. If it's not dead already
> this disunity with surely kill it.
> If something can be done to revive the project by bringing it up to date,
> hence not letting all the development time that went into Opie go to waste,
> I say it's worth it. 

Updating Opie to use Qtopia core 4 would take about 10,000 man hours. I 
personally saw the process that Troltlech took to do it. It was not pretty. 
You basically have to rewrite everything, including starting the designer .ui 
files sfrom scratch.

The Opie developers decided this was futile and pointless, and why not use the 
code that Trolltech generates for the next Opie. That saves opie developers 
from a fairly futile and frustrating effort.


> As for why this work wasn't done on the hh.org 
> servers, I have no idea, and I really don't care. 

Many reasons. For one, that my email to admins of handhelds.org requesting to 
start a new cvs tree went unanswered. For another, over the years, it has 
been a PINA to get new developers setup for write access to the cvs, and 
often taking weeks to do so and depended on the grace of handhelds.org admins 
being available and responsive.


> It really is meaningless 
> when we're dealing with a dead project. If the core Opie developers are
> really upset by the use of the name tied to the server change, then they
> can easily do something about it. Start working on Opie @ hh.org. Bring it
> up to date. Start building it on Qtopia-Core. Expand. Otherwise, all this
> is doing is holding active developers back.
> When the day is done, the code speaks for itself. It doesn't matter what
> it's called.
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